PART 12CHILDREN PROCEEDINGS EXCEPT PARENTAL ORDER PROCEEDINGS AND PROCEEDINGS FOR APPLICATIONS IN ADOPTION, PLACEMENT AND RELATED PROCEEDINGS
CHAPTER 2GENERAL RULES
Hearings12.21.
(1)
The court may give directions about the order of speeches and the evidence at a hearing.
(2)
Subject to any directions given under paragraph (1), the parties and the children's guardian must adduce their evidence at a hearing in the following order—
(a)
the applicant;
(b)
any party with parental responsibility for the child;
(c)
other respondents;
(d)
the children's guardian;
(e)
the child, if the child is a party to proceedings and there is no children's guardian.