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Rules

The list below accesses the rules incorporated in the Criminal Procedure Rules 2005, in Part order.

  • PART 1 - The overriding objective
  • PART 2 - Understanding and applying the Rules
  • PART 3 - Case management
  • PART 4 - Service of documents
  • PART 5 - Forms
  • PART 6 - Court records
  • PART 7 - Starting a prosecution in a magistrates' court
  • PART 8 - Objecting to the discontinuance of proceedings in a magistrates' court
  • PART 9 - Pre-trial hearings in magistrates' courts
  • PART 10 - Committal for trial
  • PART 11 - Transfer for trial of serious fraud cases or cases involving children
  • PART 12 - Sending for trial
  • PART 13 - Dismissal of charges transferred or sent to the Crown Court
  • PART 14 - The indictment
  • PART 15 - Preparatory hearings in case of serious fraud and other complex or lengthy cases in the Crown Court
  • PART 16 - Restrictions on reporting and public access
  • PART 17 - Extradition
  • PART 18 - Warrants
  • PART 19 - Bail in magistrates' courts and the Crown Court
  • PART 20 - Custody time limits
  • PART 21 - Advance information
  • PART 22 - Disclosure by the prosecution
  • PART 23 - Disclosure by the defence
  • PART 24 - Disclosure of expert evidence
  • PART 25 - Applications for Public Interest Immunity and specific disclosure
  • PART 26 - Confidential material
  • PART 27 - Witness statements
  • PART 28 - Witness summonses, warrants and orders
  • PART 29 - Special measures directions
  • PART 30 - Use of live television link other than for vulnerable witnesses
  • PART 31 - Restriction on cross-examination by a defendant acting in person
  • PART 32 - International co-operation
  • PART 33 - Expert evidence
  • PART 34 - Hearsay evidence
  • PART 35 - Evidence of bad character
  • PART 36 - Evidence about a complainant's sexual behaviour
  • PART 37 - Summary trial
  • PART 38 - Trial of children and young persons
  • PART 39 - Trial on indictment
  • PART 40 - Tainted acquittals
  • PART 41 - Retrial following acquittal for serious offence
  • PART 42 - Remittal from one magistrates' court to another for sentence
  • PART 43 - Committal to the Crown Court for sentence
  • PART 44 - Sentencing children and young persons
  • PART 45 - Deferred sentence
  • PART 46 - Custodial sentences
  • PART 47 - Suspended sentences of imprisonment
  • PART 48 - Community penalties
  • PART 49 - Hospital and guardianship orders
  • PART 50 - Civil behaviour orders after verdict or finding
  • PART 51 - Fines
  • PART 52 - Enforcement of fines
  • PART 53 - Compensation orders
  • PART 54 - Conditional discharge
  • PART 55 - Road traffic penalties
  • PART 56 - Confiscation proceedings under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Drug Trafficking Act 1994
  • PART 57 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - rules applicable to all proceedings
  • PART 58 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - rules applicable only to confiscation proceedings
  • PART 59 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - rules applicable only to restraint proceedings
  • PART 60 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - rules applicable only to receivership proceedings
  • PART 61 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - rules applicable to restraint and receivership proceedings
  • PART 62 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - rules applicable to investigations
  • PART 63 - Appeal to the Crown Court
  • PART 64 - Appeal to the High Court by way of case stated
  • PART 65 - Appeal to the Court of Appeal: general rules
  • PART 66 - Appeal to the Court of Appeal against ruling at preparatory hearing
  • PART 67 - Appeal to the Court of Appeal against ruling adverse to prosecution
  • PART 68 - Appeal to the Court of Appeal about conviction or sentence
  • PART 69 - Appeal to the Court of Appeal regarding reporting or public access restriction
  • PART 70 - Reference to the Court of Appeal of point of law or unduly lenient sentencing
  • PART 71 - Appeal to the Court of Appeal under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - general rules
  • PART 72 - Appeal to the Court of Appeal under Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - prosecutor's appeal regarding confiscation
  • PART 73 - Appeal to the Court of Appeal under POCA 2002 - restraint or receivership orders
  • PART 74 - Appeal or reference to the House of Lords
  • PART 75 - Reference to the European Court
  • PART 76 - Representation Orders
  • PART 77 - Recovery of Defence Costs Orders
  • PART 78 - Costs orders against the parties
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