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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-31A.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-31A.2.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/31A.2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31A.2",
  "heading": "Application for an award of expenses",
  "text": "(1) Where civil proceedings have been brought by a pursuer, another party to the action (“the applicant”) may make an application to the sheriff for an award of expenses to be made against the pursuer, on one or more of the grounds specified in either or both—\n(a) section 8(4)(a) to (c) of the Act;\n(b) paragraph (2) of this rule.\n(2) The grounds specified in this paragraph, which are exceptions to section 8(2) of the Act, are as follows—\n(a) failure by the pursuer to obtain an award of damages greater than the sum offered by way of a tender lodged in process;\n(b) unreasonable delay on the part of the pursuer in accepting a sum offered by way of a tender lodged in process;\n(c) decree of absolvitor or decree of dismissal has been granted against the pursuer in terms of rule 17.2(3)(b) (applications for summary decree);\n(d) abandonment of the cause in terms of rule 23.1(1), or at common law.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Ch. 31A inserted (30.6.2021) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994, Sheriff Appeal Court Rules and Sheriff Court Rules Amendment) (Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting) 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/226), paras. 1(2), 5(2)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/51/schedule/First/paragraph/31A.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:51.257811+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."
}