{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-57.12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-57.12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/57.12",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "57.12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This Section contains rules about claims for the rectification of a will.\n(Section 20 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 provides for rectification of a will. Additional provisions are contained in rule 55 of the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987.)\n(2) Every personal representative of the estate shall be joined as a party.\n(3) Practice Direction 57 makes provision for lodging the grant of probate or letters of administration with the will annexed in a claim under this Section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 57 inserted (15.10.2001) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/1388), rule 1(b), Sch. (with rule 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 57.12(3) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3390), rules 1(2), 32(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 54. Section 35A was inserted by the Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c. 53), section 15(1), Schedule 1, Part I."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/57.12",
    "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."
}