{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-79.17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-79.17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/79.17",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "79.17",
  "heading": "Hearings",
  "text": "(1) All proceedings to which Section 2 or 3 of this Part applies must be determined at a hearing except where—\n(a) the claimant withdraws the claim or application;\n(b) the appropriate Minister consents to the claim or application being allowed;\n(c) the appellant withdraws the appeal against a decision of the appropriate Minister or the High Court;\n(d) the respondent to the appeal consents to the appeal being allowed; or\n(e) the parties agree to a determination without a hearing.\n(2) Where the court considers it necessary for a party other than the appropriate Minister and that party’s legal representative to be excluded from a hearing or part of a hearing in order to secure that information is not disclosed contrary to the public interest, the court will—\n(a) direct accordingly; and\n(b) conduct the hearing, or that part of it from which the party and that party’s legal representative are excluded, in private but attended by a special advocate to represent the interests of the excluded party.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 79 inserted (4.12.2008) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/3085), rule 1, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 79.17(1) inserted (1.10.2009) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/2092), rules 1(2), 18(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 79.17 substituted (1.3.2019) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) (EU Exit) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/147), rules 1, 3(12)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in rule 79.17(1)(b) substituted (1.3.2019) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) (EU Exit) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/147), rules 1, 3(12)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 79.17(1)(c) inserted (24.12.2010) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.4) Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/3038), rules 1(2), 3(m)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/79.17",
    "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."
}