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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-tribunal-rules-1989/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-tribunal-rules-1989/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1129",
  "legislation_title": "The Copyright Tribunal Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-tribunal-rules-1989",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Procedure and evidence at hearing",
  "text": "(1) Every party to a reference or application which is considered at an oral hearing before the Tribunal shall be entitled to attend the hearing, to address the Tribunal, to give evidence and call witnesses.\n(2) Except where the Tribunal or the Chairman otherwise orders in the case of an application for directions under rule 12, the hearing shall be in public.\n(3) Evidence before the Tribunal shall be given orally or, if the parties so agree or the Tribunal or the Chairman so orders, by affidavit, but the Tribunal may at any stage of the proceedings require the personal attendance of any deponent for examination and cross-examination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1129/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:41:22.971140+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."
}