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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-1981/article-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1687",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-1981",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Costs",
  "text": "If—\n(a) a party to an action or matter serves a counter-notice under rule 17 in respect of any person who is called as a witness at the trial of the action or matter in compliance with a requirement of the counter-notice, and\n(b) it appears to the court that it was unreasonable to require that person to be called as a witness,\nthen without prejudice to Order 38, and, in particular, to rule 6 thereof, the court may direct that any costs to that party in respect of the preparation and service of the counter-notice shall not be allowed to him and that any costs occasioned by the counter-notice to any other party shall be paid by him to that other party.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1687/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:30:24.562762+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."
}