The Court of Protection Rules 2017

Power to treat application for permission to appeal as application for reconsideration under rule 13.4E+W

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20.9.—(1) Where a person seeking permission to appeal a decision would be entitled to seek reconsideration of that decision under rule 13.4 (or would have been so entitled had the application been made within 21 days of the date of that decision)—

(a)a practice direction may provide; or

(b)the court may direct,

that an application for permission shall be treated as an application for reconsideration under rule 13.4.

(2) In any case where paragraph (1) applies, the decision in question shall be reconsidered in accordance with the provisions of rule 13.4.