Failure to comply with a direction
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27.—(1) If any direction given to a party under rule 25 is not complied with by that party within any period specified in the direction, a legal member or the First-tier Tribunal at a hearing, may—
(a)where the party in default is the appellant, dismiss the reference either in whole or in part;
(b)where the party in default is the authority, determine the reference without a hearing; or
(c)where appropriate, direct that a party in default take no further part in the proceedings.
(2) In this rule the expression “party in default” means the party who failed to comply with the direction.