{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-4-1989/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-4-1989/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2427",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 4) 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-4-1989",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Provision of medical reports",
  "text": "For Order 38, rule 37, there shall be substituted the following—\n“(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where in any cause or matter an application is made under rule 36(1) in respect of oral expert evidence, then, unless the Court considers that there are special reasons for not doing so, it shall direct that the substance of the evidence be disclosed in the form of a written report or reports to such other parties and within such period as the Court may specify.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall require a party to disclose a further medical report if he proposes to rely at the trial only on the report provided pursuant to Order 18, rule 12(1A) or (1B) but, where a party claiming damages for personal injuries discloses a further report, that report shall be accompanied by a statement of the special damages claimed and, in this paragraph, “statement of the special damages claimed” has the same meaning as in Order 18, rule 12(1C).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2427/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:33.369237+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."
}