Explanatory note

These Rules amend the Criminal Appeal Rules 1968 (as amended), with effect from 1st January 1988, to provide that notice of appeal and of application for leave to appeal from conviction and/or sentence to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division should be served on the Crown Court at the centre at which the proceedings took place, rather than on the Registrar of the Court of Appeal Criminal Division. The Schedule to the Rules sets out amended forms of notice and grounds of appeal (which have been amalgamated), of application relating to bail and of application for witness orders.