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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-1.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-1.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/1.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1.1",
  "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 any 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/2010/2955/rule/1.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:56.480940+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."
}