{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supreme-court-rules-2024/rule-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supreme-court-rules-2024/rule-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/949",
  "legislation_title": "The Supreme Court Rules 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supreme-court-rules-2024",
  "path": "rule/17",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Consideration of the application",
  "text": "(1) Every issued application for permission to appeal (together with any submissions made under rule 16 and any respondent’s notice of objection) shall be considered without a hearing by a panel of Justices.\n(2) The panel of Justices may—\n(a) refuse permission on the ground that the Court lacks jurisdiction to hear the appeal;\n(b) grant or refuse permission to advance all or any of the grounds of appeal;\n(c) invite the parties to file written submissions within 14 days as to the grant of permission on terms (whether as to costs or otherwise); or\n(d) direct an oral hearing.\n(3) Where the panel of Justices has invited the parties’ submissions as to terms, it shall reconsider the application without a hearing and may refuse permission or grant permission (either unconditionally or on terms) to advance all or any of the grounds of appeal.\n(4) Where the panel of Justices grants permission to advance limited grounds of appeal it shall (unless it directs otherwise) be taken to have refused permission to advance the other grounds.\n(5) An order of the Court shall be prepared and sealed by the Registrar to record any decision made under this rule.\n(6) The order must be notified—\n(a) by the Registrar—\n(i) to portal parties via the portal;\n(ii) to non-portal parties by appropriate means;\n(iii) to any person who made submissions under rule 16 by appropriate means;\n(b) by the appellant to any person who was an intervener in the court below, if that person did not make submissions under rule 16.\n(7) Any person who is notified under paragraph (6)(a)(iii) or (b) or under rule 18(2) of an order granting permission and who wishes to intervene in the appeal must make an application under rule 24.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/949/rule/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:31.909325+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."
}