{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-mandatory-life-sentences-appeals-in-transitional-cases-order-2005/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-mandatory-life-sentences-appeals-in-transitional-cases-order-2005/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2798",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Mandatory Life Sentences: Appeals in Transitional Cases) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-mandatory-life-sentences-appeals-in-transitional-cases-order-2005",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Right of appellant to be present",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by this article, an appellant shall be entitled to be present, if he wishes it, on the hearing of his appeal, although he may be in custody.\n(2) A person in custody shall not be entitled to be present—\n(a) where his appeal is on some ground involving a question of law alone;\n(b) on an application by him for leave to appeal;\n(c) on any proceedings preliminary or incidental to the appeal;\nunless the Court of Appeal give him leave to be present.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2798/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:57.895373+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."
}