# The Rules of the Scottish Land Court Order 2014, Paragraph 34: Dispensing with attendance by witness


(1) A party may, no later than 2 weeks before the date fixed for a hearing of evidence, intimate to the other parties and to the court the evidence proposed to be given by a witness called by that party.
(2) That evidence is to be set out, in the intimation, as a copy statement or report by, or affidavit of, the witness.
(3) A party to whom such intimation is given may, no later than 1 week before the date on which the hearing takes place, notify the Principal Clerk and the party calling the witness that the witness is required to attend the hearing.
(4) Where timeous notification under paragraph (3) is not given, the witness is not required to attend the hearing as a witness called by the intimating party; and unless the witness attends the hearing as a witness called by another party (or attends and is called by the intimating party or by another party) the evidence set out in terms of paragraph (2) is to be taken to be the witness’s evidence.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/229/schedule/paragraph/34 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-scottish-land-court-order-2014/schedule/paragraph-34
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