{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-24/chapter-1/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-24/chapter-1/rule-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1981/225",
  "legislation_title": "County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981",
  "path": "part/24/chapter/1/rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Evidence to be taken orally",
  "text": "(1) Save as otherwise provided by these Rules, the evidence of witnesses at the hearing of any action or matter shall be taken orally on oath, and where by these Rules evidence is required or permitted to be taken by affidavit, it shall nevertheless be taken orally on oath if [ the judge or district judge as the case may be], on any application before or at the hearing, so directs.\n[(2) The court may allow a witness to give evidence through a video link or by any other method of direct communication.]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words amended by S.R. 2013 No. 19 with effect from 25.02.13"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph inserted by S.R. 2007 No. 500 with effect from 07.01.08"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/24/chapter/1/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:45:17.527867+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."
}