{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-27.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015/rule-27.6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1568",
  "legislation_title": "The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-2015",
  "path": "rule/27.6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "27.6",
  "heading": "Addition of parties",
  "text": "(1) A person who was not a party to the proceedings in the lower court may become a party to an appeal if the appeal court gives permission.\n(2) The appeal court may only exercise its power if the person seeking to become a party could have been a party to the proceedings in the consistory court.\n(3) An application for permission under paragraph (1) must be accompanied by a notice setting out—\n(a) the basis on which it is said the person making the application could have been a party to the proceedings in the consistory court; and\n(b) the matters which that person proposes to argue in the appeal.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 27.6 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/27.6",
    "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."
}