{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-2.30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996/rule-2.30.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/322",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "rule/2.30",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.30",
  "heading": "Mode ... of trial",
  "text": "(1) Subject to section 62(4) of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978, every cause and any issue arising therein shall be tried by a judge without a jury.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Unless the judge otherwise directs, every cause listed for hearing and any issue arising therein shall be heard by a judge in chambers and adjourned into court for judgment.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 2.30(2) omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/301), rules 1(1), 2(6)(b); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 2.30 heading omitted (31.10.2016) by virtue of The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/301), rules 1(1), 2(6)(a); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 23"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/322/rule/2.30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:45.513001+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."
}