{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1987/article-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1987/article-61.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1423",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1987",
  "path": "article/61",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Dismissal of patient’s appeal by consent",
  "text": "Order 80, rule 10 shall be amended as follows—\n(1) the existing rule 10 shall become paragraph (1) of rule 10;\n(2) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—\n“(2) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1), where the receiver or other person authorised under Part VII of the Act to conduct legal proceedings in the name of the patient or on his behalf has also been authorised by the Court of Protection under its seal to consent to the dismissal of an appeal to the Court of Appeal by that patient, the appeal may be dismissed by consent without a hearing.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1423/article/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:21:37.717803+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."
}