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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-choice-in-very-high-cost-cases-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1169",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Choice in Very High Cost Cases) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-choice-in-very-high-cost-cases-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for the selection of new representatives where a right to representation has been granted in a Very High Cost Case and the Commission or the current representatives do not propose to contract with one another. A Very High Cost Case is a case where the trial is likely to last for 25 days or more, or specified costs are likely to amount to £150,000 or more.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1169/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:53:24.298962+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."
}