{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-38.5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-38.5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/38.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "38.5",
  "heading": "When discontinuance takes effect where permission of the court is not needed",
  "text": "(1) Discontinuance against any defendant takes effect on the date when notice of discontinuance is served on them under rule 38.3(1).\n(2) Subject to rule 38.4, the claim is brought to an end as against that defendant on that date.\n(3) However, this does not affect proceedings to deal with any question of costs.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 38.5(1) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 21(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 38.5(2) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 21(5)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 38.5(2) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 21(5)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 38.5 in force at 26.4.1999, see Signature"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/38.5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}