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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-77",
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  "legislation": "asp/2014/18",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Evidence in simple procedure cases",
  "text": "(1) Any enactment or rule of law that prevents evidence being led on grounds of admissibility before a court of law does not apply in simple procedure cases.\n(2) The evidence, if any, given in simple procedure cases is not to be recorded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 77 in force at 28.11.2016 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2016/291, art. 2, sch. (with art. 3(1)(4))"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/18/section/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:59.973943+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."
}