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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2017/part-16/rule-16.2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1035",
  "legislation_title": "The Court of Protection Rules 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-protection-rules-2017",
  "path": "part/16/rule/16.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "16.2",
  "heading": "General or specific disclosure",
  "text": "(1) The court may either on its own initiative or on the application of a party make an order to give general or specific disclosure.\n(2) General disclosure requires a party to disclose—\n(a) the documents on which that party relies; and\n(b) the documents which—\n(i) adversely affect that party's own case;\n(ii) adversely affect another party's case; or\n(iii) support another party's case.\n(3) An order for specific disclosure is an order that a party must do one or more of the following things—\n(a) disclose documents or classes of documents specified in the order;\n(b) carry out a search to the extent stated in the order; or\n(c) disclose any document located as a result of that search.\n(4) A party's duty to disclose documents is limited to documents which are or have been in that party's control.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4) a party has or has had a document in that party's control if—\n(a) it is or was in that party's physical possession;\n(b) that party has or has had possession of it; or\n(c) that party has or has had a right to inspect or take copies of it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1035/part/16/rule/16.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:10.291890+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."
}