{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-62.10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-62.10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/62.10",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "62.10",
  "heading": "Hearings",
  "text": "(1) The court may order that an arbitration claim be heard either in public or in private.\n(2) Rule 39.2 does not apply.\n(3) Subject to any order made under paragraph (1)—\n(a) the determination of—\n(i) a preliminary point of law under section 45 of the 1996 Act; or\n(ii) an appeal under section 69 of the 1996 Act on a question of law arising out of an award,\nwill be heard in public; and\n(b) all other arbitration claims will be heard in private.\n(4) Paragraph (3)(a) does not apply to—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) an application for permission to appeal under section 69(2)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 62 inserted (25.3.2002) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/4015), rule 1(c), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 62.10(4)(a) omitted (1.10.2025) by virtue of The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/62.10",
    "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."
}