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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-27A.9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-27A.9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/51",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907",
  "path": "schedule/First/paragraph/27A.9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27A.9",
  "heading": "Extent of defender’s liability",
  "text": "The sum that may be decerned for under rule 27A.7(2)(b) or rule 27A.8(3) is a sum corresponding to half the charges allowed on taxation of the pursuer’s account of expenses, in so far as those charges are attributable to the relevant period, or in so far they can reasonably be attributed to that period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Ch. 27A inserted (3.4.2017) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 and Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Pursuers’ Offers) 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/52), paras. 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 rule 27A.9 substituted (29.4.2019) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session, Sheriff Appeal Court Rules and Ordinary Cause Rules Amendment) (Taxation of Judicial Expenses) 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/74), paras. 1(2), 3(4) (with para. 2)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/51/schedule/First/paragraph/27A.9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:51.257811+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."
}