{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/500",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981 [S.R. 1981 No. 225] (“the principal Rules”) to:\nmake provision for the court to allow a witness to give evidence by video link or by any other means of direct communication;\nmake provision for enhancement of costs in an action brought under the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 or the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006;\nuplift by 4.08% (rounded where appropriate) certain costs in the body of the principal Rules and the scale costs for solicitor and counsel prescribed in Appendix 2 of the principal Rules; and\namend Order 33, rule 3 (Recovery of value added tax) to apply that rule to a decree in equity proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/500/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:20.607781+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."
}