{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1988/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1988/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/278",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of pleadings by consent",
  "text": "Order 15, rule 2 shall be amended by substituting for paragraph (1) the following paragraph—\n“(1) Subject to Order 9, rule 2(3) and the following provisions of this rule, in any action or matter in which a return day has been fixed or a defence has been filed, a party may, without an order, amend any pleading of his—\n(a) at any time before the return day, by filing the amended pleading and serving a copy on every other party, or\n(b) at any stage of the proceedings, by filing the amended pleading endorsed with the consent of every party to the proceedings.\nWhere a day has been fixed for the pre-trial review of the action or matter, that day shall be treated as the return day for the purpose of this paragraph.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/278/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:11:28.884922+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."
}