{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/schedule-8/paragraph-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/schedule-8/paragraph-57.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/23",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/57",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In the Criminal Appeal Act 1968—\n(a) for the words “a court of assize or quarter sessions” wherever they occur (sections 10(1), . . .11(2)) substitute the words “the Crown Court”.\n(b) for the words “at assizes or quarter sessions” wherever they occur (sections 10(2), (3), 24(2)(b), 39(3)) substitute the words “before the Crown Court”.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In section 51(1) of the said Act for the definition of the judge of the court of trial substitute— “the judge of court of trial” means, where the Crown Court comprises justices of the peace, the judge presiding. ”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "In Sch. 8 para. 57(1)(a) the reference to subsection (2) of section 10 is repealed (E.W.) (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 101(2), Sch. 13; S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 57(2) repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of Schedule 8 paras. 24(b), 35, 40, 48(a) and 57 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/schedule/8/paragraph/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:15.740722+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}