{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supreme-court-rules-2024/rule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supreme-court-rules-2024/rule-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/949",
  "legislation_title": "The Supreme Court Rules 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supreme-court-rules-2024",
  "path": "rule/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The portal and portal parties",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n(a) the “portal” means the portal for filing and managing cases at the Court electronically;\n(b) a “portal party” is a party who (or whose representative) has been granted access to the relevant case file on the portal for the purpose of taking part in the appeal;\n(c) a “non-portal party” is a party who (or whose representative) has not been granted access to the relevant case file on the portal.\n(2) A person who wishes to participate in an appeal as a party and who is legally represented by a solicitor or counsel must be a portal party in respect of that appeal.\n(3) A party who is not legally represented may be a portal party or a non-portal party.\n(4) A party who is or becomes a portal party at any stage of an appeal must remain a portal party until that appeal is finally disposed of, unless permitted to become a non-portal party by the Registrar.\n(5) A party who is a non-portal party at the start of an appeal but who becomes a portal party during the course of the appeal must notify the other parties to the appeal of that fact via the portal.\n(6) Orders issued in the portal are sealed with an electronic seal.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}