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Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 88 inserted (27.2.2015) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/406), rule 1, Sch.
88.21.—(1) If the court considers it necessary for any party and that party’s legal representative to be excluded from any hearing or part of a hearing in order to secure that information is not disclosed contrary to the public interest, it must—
(a)direct accordingly; and
(b)conduct the hearing, or that part of it from which that party and that party’s legal representative are excluded, in private but attended by a special advocate to represent the interests of the excluded party.
(2) The court may conduct a hearing or part of a hearing in private for any other good reason.]