{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-61.13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-61.13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/61.13",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "61.13",
  "heading": "Assessors",
  "text": "The court may sit with assessors when hearing—\n(a) collision claims; ...\n(b) other claims involving issues of navigation or seamanship ; or\n(c) a reference as defined in paragraph 13.1 of Practice Direction 61,\nand, whenever it does so, the parties will not be permitted to call expert witnesses unless the court orders otherwise.\n(Paragraph 26A of Practice Direction 52C makes provision regarding assessors who assist the Court of Appeal in appeals from decisions of the Admiralty Court.)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 61 inserted (25.3.2002) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/4015), rule 1(c), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 61.13(a) omitted (6.4.2019) by virtue of The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/342), rules 1(1), 16(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in rule 61.13(b) substituted (6.4.2019) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/342), rules 1(1), 16(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 61.13(c) inserted (6.4.2019) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/342), rules 1(1), 16(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 61.13 substituted (6.4.2019) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/342), rules 1(1), 16(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 61.13 inserted (1.10.2020) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/747), rules 1(1), 11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/61.13",
    "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."
}