{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-41.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1155",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024",
  "path": "rule/41",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "General",
  "text": "(1) The Tribunal may regulate its own procedure and must conduct any hearing in the manner it considers fair, having regard to the overriding objective.\n(2) The Tribunal must seek to avoid undue formality and may itself question the parties or any witnesses so far as appropriate in order to clarify the issues or elicit the evidence.\n(3) The Tribunal is not bound by any rule of law relating to the admissibility of evidence in proceedings before the courts.\n(4) This rule is not restricted by any other rule contained in this Part.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 41 in force at 6.1.2025 immediately after S.I. 2024/1156 comes into force, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1155/rule/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:24:28.531903+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."
}