# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百五十七条の二 (Article 157-2) - Law: 民事訴訟法 (Code of Civil Procedure), 平成八年法律第百九号 - English title "Code of Civil Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百五十七条の二 (Article 157-2)（審理の計画が定められている場合の攻撃防御方法の却下） — address `art-157-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-157-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-157-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百五十七条の二（審理の計画が定められている場合の攻撃防御方法の却下） — (Denial of Allegations or Evidence When a Plan for Trial Is Set) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-157-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-157-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-157-2 **第一項** 第百四十七条の三第三項又は第百五十六条の二（第百七十条第五項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により特定の事項についての攻撃又は防御の方法を提出すべき期間が定められている場合において、当事者がその期間の経過後に提出した攻撃又は防御の方法については、これにより審理の計画に従った訴訟手続の進行に著しい支障を生ずるおそれがあると認めたときは、裁判所は、申立てにより又は職権で、却下の決定をすることができる。ただし、その当事者がその期間内に当該攻撃又は防御の方法を提出することができなかったことについて相当の理由があることを疎明したときは、この限りでない。 art-157-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-157-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-157-2/par-1 If a time frame for presenting allegations and evidence on a specific matter is specified pursuant to the provisions of Article 147-3, paragraph (3) or Article 156-2 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 170, paragraph (5)), and the court, with regard to allegations or evidence that a party has presented after the expiration of that time frame, finds that those allegations or evidence would be likely to substantially interfere with the progress of litigation proceedings based on the plan for trial, the court may rule to deny them upon petition or sua sponte; provided, however, that this does not apply if the party has made a prima facie showing of reasonable grounds for the party having been unable to present the allegations or evidence within that time frame. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-157-2/par-1: 第百四十七条の三第三項 → 民事訴訟法 第百四十七条の三第三項 (Article 147-3, paragraph (3)), art-147-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-147-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-147-3/par-3 - art-157-2/par-1: 第百五十六条の二 → 民事訴訟法 第百五十六条の二 (Article 156-2), art-156-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-156-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-156-2 - art-157-2/par-1: 第百七十条第五項 → 民事訴訟法 第百七十条第五項 (Article 170, paragraph (5)), art-170/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-170/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-170/par-5 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第百七十条第五項（弁論準備手続における訴訟行為等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-170/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-170/par-5 - 民事訴訟法 第百七十一条第二項（受命裁判官による弁論準備手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-171/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-171/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17