{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "part/25",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "TRIAL AND SENTENCE IN THE CROWN COURT",
  "text": "Contents of this Part\nWhen this Part applies\nrule 25.1\nGeneral powers and requirements\nrule 25.2\nApplication for ruling on procedure, evidence or other question of law\nrule 25.3\nProcedure on plea of guilty\nrule 25.4\nApplication to withdraw a guilty plea\nrule 25.5\nSelecting the jury\nrule 25.6\nDischarging jurors\nrule 25.7\nObjecting to jurors\nrule 25.8\nProcedure on plea of not guilty\nrule 25.9\nDefendant unfit to plead\nrule 25.10\nEvidence of a witness in person\nrule 25.11\nEvidence of a witness in writing\nrule 25.12\nEvidence by admission\nrule 25.13\nDirections to the jury and taking the verdict\nrule 25.14\nConviction or acquittal at trial without a jury\nrule 25.15\nProcedure if the court convicts\nrule 25.16\nProvision of documents for the court\nrule 25.17\nDuty of court officer and custodian\nrule 25.18\n[Note. Part 3 contains rules about case management that apply during preparation for trial and at trial. The rules in this Part must be read in conjunction with those rules.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/part/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:44.140935+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."
}