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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2795",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Adoption) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The overriding objective",
  "text": "(1) These Rules are a new procedural code with the overriding objective of enabling the court to deal with cases justly, having regard to the welfare issues involved.\n(2) Dealing with a case justly includes, so far as is practicable—\n(a) ensuring that it is dealt with expeditiously and fairly;\n(b) dealing with the case in ways which are proportionate to the nature, importance and complexity of the issues;\n(c) ensuring that the parties are on an equal footing;\n(d) saving expense; and\n(e) allotting to it an appropriate share of the court’s resources, while taking into account the need to allot resources to other cases.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2795/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:01.488224+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."
}