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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-2-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1907",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 2) 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-2-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court so as to–\n(a) permit contentious probate proceedings to be commenced and dealt with in a Chancery district registry instead of in Chancery Chambers in London (rules 2 to 6);\n(b) provide for the compulsory exchange of witness statements (rules 7 to 10);\n(c) allow further affidavits to be used in judicial review proceedings regardless of whether they deal with new matters arising out of affidavits of another party (rule 11), and\n(d) make consequential amendments as a result of the coming into force of the Lugano Convention to which the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991 (c. 12) gave effect (rules 12 to 22).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1907/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:47.810913+00:00"
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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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