The Civil Procedure Rules 1998

[F1HearingsE+W

79.17.—(1) All proceedings to which [F2Section 2 or 3 of] this Part applies must be determined at a hearing except where—

(a)the claimant withdraws the claim or application;

(b)[F3the appropriate Minister] [F4consents] to the claim or application being allowed;

(c)the appellant withdraws the appeal against a decision of [F5[F3the appropriate Minister] or] the High Court;

(d)the respondent to the appeal consents to the appeal being allowed; or

(e)the parties agree to a determination without a hearing.

(2) Where the court considers it necessary for a party other than [F3the appropriate Minister] and that party’s legal representative to be excluded from a hearing or part of a hearing in order to secure that information is not disclosed contrary to the public interest, the court will—

(a)direct accordingly; and

(b)conduct the hearing, or that part of it from which the 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.]

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