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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/claims-management-services-tribunal-rules-2007/article-27",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/90",
  "legislation_title": "The Claims Management Services Tribunal Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/claims-management-services-tribunal-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Decision of the Tribunal",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and to rule 23(3), the Tribunal must make arrangements for public access to its decision.\n(2) Where the whole or any part of any hearing under these Rules was held in private, the Tribunal must consider whether, having regard to—\n(a) the reason for the hearing or any part of it being in private; and\n(b) the outcome of the hearing,\nit would be undesirable to publish the whole or part of its decision.\n(3) If the Tribunal decides that a restriction on publication is desirable the Tribunal may take any steps, including any one or more of the steps specified in paragraph (5).\n(4) Any step taken under paragraph (3) must be taken with a view to ensuring the minimum restriction on publication that is consistent with the need for the restriction.\n(5) The specified steps that can be taken by the Tribunal under paragraph (3) are—\n(a) anonymising the decision;\n(b) editing the text of the decision; and\n(c) declining to publish the whole or part of the decision.\n(6) Before reaching a decision under paragraph (2), the Tribunal must invite the parties to make representations.\n(7) The secretary must as soon as may be practicable—\n(a) whether there has been an oral hearing or not, send a notification of the decision and the reasons for reaching it to each of the parties to the appeal; and\n(b) subject to any steps taken under paragraph (3), under rule 23(3) or any direction given under rule 24(10), enter the decision and the reasons for reaching it in the register.\n(8) Every notification under paragraph (7)(a) must be accompanied by a notification of—\n(a) any relevant provision of the 2006 Act relating to appeals from the Tribunal; and\n(b) the time within which, and the place at which, an application for permission to appeal is to be made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/22",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/90/article/27",
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  },
  "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."
}