{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1024",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016",
  "path": "rule/12.11",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.11",
  "heading": "Directions",
  "text": "The court may at any time give such directions as it thinks just as to—\n(a) service or notice of the application on or to any person;\n(b) whether particulars of claim and defence are to be delivered and generally as to the procedure on the application including whether a hearing is necessary;\n(c) the matters to be dealt with in evidence; and\n(d) the manner in which any evidence is to be provided and in particular as to—\n(i) the taking of evidence wholly or partly by witness statement or orally,\n(ii) any report to be made by an office-holder, and\n(iii) the cross-examination of the maker of a witness statement or of a report.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 12.11 applied (with modifications) (temp.) (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 4 para. 47 (with ss. 2(2), 5(2), Sch. 4 para. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Rules 12.7-12.11 applied (with modifications) (30.9.2021) by S.I. 2014/229, art. 2(2A), Sch. 1A paras. 1(4)(5), 35, 38 (as inserted by The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Administration) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1048), arts. 1(1), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Pt. 12 Ch. 3 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5(1)(c), 64 (with rule 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Rules 12.6-12.31 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 62-73, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/12.11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:01.539785+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."
}