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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-2-1986/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1187",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 2) 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-2-1986",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 so as to—\n(a) require a landlord who is taking proceedings for forfeiture to notify any person entitled to relief against forfeiture of whom he is aware (Rules 2 and 3);\n(b) give effect to section 47 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (power of High Court to make judgments binding on persons who are not parties) (Rules 4 and 5);\n(c) enable the Court in certain cases to require parties to prepare and exchange statements relating to their evidence and to require experts to meet (Rules 6 to 8);\n(d) clarify the rules relating to procedure in the Court of Appeal (Rule 9);\n(e) implement the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (applications relating to children wrongfully removed from their country and to foreign custody decisions (Rules 10 to 12);\n(f) make amendments consequential on the extension of trademark legislation to service marks (Rules 13 and 14);\n(g) amend the procedure in patent actions by requiring matters to be dealt with before instead of at the summons for directions (Rule 15).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1187/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:45:04.418514+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."
}