{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-rules-1996/article-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-rules-1996/article-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1022",
  "legislation_title": "The Lands Tribunal Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/39",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Pre-trial review",
  "text": "(1) The Tribunal and, subject to any direction given by the Tribunal, the registrar may, on the application of a party to the proceedings or of its or his own motion order a pre-trial review to be held and the registrar shall send to each party to the proceedings a notice informing him of the place and date of the pre-trial review.\n(2) Unless the parties agree otherwise, the date of the pre-trial review shall be not less than 14 days from the making of the order that the pre-trial review should be held.\n(3) The Tribunal or the registrar—\n(a) shall at the pre-trial review give any direction that appears necessary or desirable for securing the just, expeditious and economical disposal of the proceedings; and\n(b) shall at the pre-trial review endeavour to secure that the parties make all such admissions and agreements as ought reasonably to be made by them in relation to the proceedings;\n(c) may record in the order made on the review any admission or agreement made under sub-paragraph (b) or any refusal to make any admission or agreement.\n(4) Where a party seeks a specific direction he shall, so far as is practicable, apply for such direction at the pre-trial review and shall give the registrar and every other party notice of his intention to do so.\n(5) If an application which might have been made at the pre-trial review is made subsequently the applicant shall pay the costs of and occasioned by the application unless the Tribunal considers that there was sufficient reason for the application not having been made at the review.\n(6) Paragraphs (6) to (11) of rule 38 shall apply to a pre-trial review as if it were an interlocutory application.\n(7) If any party does not appear at the pre-trial review the Tribunal or the registrar may, after giving the parties the opportunity to be heard, make such order as may be appropriate for the purpose of expediting or disposing of the proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1022/article/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:45:38.824501+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."
}