{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2007/rule-95",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2007/rule-95.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1744",
  "legislation_title": "The Court of Protection Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2007",
  "path": "rule/95",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "95",
  "heading": "Power of court to control evidence",
  "text": "The court may—\n(a) control the evidence by giving directions as to—\n(i) the issues on which it requires evidence;\n(ii) the nature of the evidence which it requires to decide those issues; and\n(iii) the way in which the evidence is to be placed before the court;\n(b) use its power under this rule to exclude evidence that would otherwise be admissible;\n(c) allow or limit cross-examination; and\n(d) admit such evidence, whether written or oral, as it thinks fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/548",
      "affecting_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for rule 95(d)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/548",
      "affecting_title": "The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1744/rule/95",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:51:00.743935+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."
}