{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-27.11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-27.11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1568",
  "legislation_title": "The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015",
  "path": "rule/27.11",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "27.11",
  "heading": "Hearing and determination of appeals",
  "text": "(1) Unless it orders otherwise, the appeal court will not receive—\n(a) oral evidence;\n(b) evidence which was not before the lower court.\n(2) The appeal court will allow an appeal where the decision of the lower court was—\n(a) wrong; or\n(b) unjust because of a serious procedural or other irregularity in the proceedings in the lower court.\n(3) The appeal court may draw any inference of fact which it considers justified on the evidence.\n(4) At the hearing of an appeal a party may not rely on a matter not contained in the party’s appeal notice unless the appeal court gives permission.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 27.11 in force at 1.1.2016, see rule 28.1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1568/rule/27.11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:22.575744+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."
}