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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-committee-devolution-issues-rules-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-5.30",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/665",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Committee (Devolution Issues) Rules Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-committee-devolution-issues-rules-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5.30",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5.30",
  "heading": "Appellant’s and respondent’s Cases",
  "text": "(1) Within 28 days after the setting down of the appeal, the parties shall each lodge seven copies of their Cases and give notice of having done so to the other parties.\n(2) A Case should be a succinct statement of a party’s argument in the appeal, omitting (though if necessary referring to) material contained in the statement of facts and issues and the appendix and confined to the heads of argument which counsel propose to submit at the hearing. It should consist of paragraphs numbered consecutively; and references by page and line to the relevant portions of the statement of facts and issues and the appendix shall as far as practicable be reproduced in the margin.\n(3) If a party intends to invite the Judicial Committee to depart from one of its own decisions this intention must be clearly stated in a separate paragraph of the Case, to which special attention must be drawn. A respondent who wishes to contend that a decision of the court below should be affirmed on grounds other than those relied on by that court must set out the grounds for that contention in the Case.\n(4) All Cases shall conclude with a numbered summary of the reasons upon which the argument is founded, and must bear the signature of at least one counsel who has appeared in the court below or who will be briefed for the hearing before the Judicial Committee.\n(5) Two or more appellants or respondents may, at their own risk as to costs, lodge separate Cases in the same appeal.\n(6) No party to an appeal shall be entitled to be heard by the Judicial Committee unless he has previously lodged his Case in accordance with this rule.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/665/schedule/paragraph/5.30",
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  "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."
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