{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-23.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-23.4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/23.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "23.4",
  "heading": "Power to call witness for cross-examination on hearsay evidence",
  "text": "(1) Where a party—\n(a) proposes to rely on hearsay evidence; and\n(b) does not propose to call the person who made the original statement to give oral evidence,\nthe court may, on the application of any other party, permit that party to call the maker of the statement to be cross-examined(GL) on the contents of the statement.\n(2) An application for permission to cross-examine(GL) under this rule must be made within 14 days beginning with the date on which a notice of intention to rely on the hearsay evidence was served on the applicant.\n(... )",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 23.4 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Family Procedure Rules 2010 and Court of Protection Rules 2017 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/517), regs. 1(1), 15(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/23.4",
    "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."
}