{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "part/3",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "CASE MANAGEMENT",
  "text": "Contents of this Part\nGeneral rules\nWhen this Part applies\nrule 3.1\nThe duty of the court\nrule 3.2\nThe duty of the parties\nrule 3.3\nCase progression officers and their duties\nrule 3.4\nThe court’s case management powers\nrule 3.5\nApplication to vary a direction\nrule 3.6\nAgreement to vary a time limit fixed by a direction\nrule 3.7\nCase preparation and progression\nrule 3.8\nGround rules hearing\nrule 3.9\nDirections for commissioning medical reports, other than for sentencing purposes\nrule 3.10\nHearing to inform the court of sensitive material\nrule 3.11\nReadiness for trial or appeal\nrule 3.12\nConduct of a trial or an appeal\nrule 3.13\nDuty of court officer\nrule 3.14\nCourt’s power to vary requirements under this Part\nrule 3.15\nPreparation for trial in a magistrates’ court\nPre-trial hearings in a magistrates’ court: general rules\nrule 3.16\nPlace of magistrates’ court trial\nrule 3.17\nUse of Welsh language at magistrates’ court trial\nrule 3.18\nPreparation for trial in the Crown Court\nService of prosecution evidence\nrule 3.19\nApplication to dismiss offence sent for Crown Court trial\nrule 3.20\nPre-trial hearings in the Crown Court: general rules\nrule 3.21\nPreparatory hearing\nrule 3.22\nApplication for preparatory hearing\nrule 3.23\nApplication for non-jury trial containing information withheld from a defendant\nrule 3.24\nRepresentations in response to application for preparatory hearing\nrule 3.25\nCommencement of preparatory hearing\nrule 3.26\nDefence trial advocate\nrule 3.27\nApplication to stay case for abuse of process\nrule 3.28\nApplication for joint or separate trials, etc.\nrule 3.29\nOrder for joint or separate trials, or amendment of the indictment\nrule 3.30\nApplication for indication of sentence\nrule 3.31\nArraigning the defendant on the indictment\nrule 3.32\nPlace of Crown Court trial\nrule 3.33\nUse of Welsh language at Crown Court trial\nrule 3.34\nLive links\nLive link direction: exercise of court’s powers\nrule 3.35\nContent of application for a live link direction\nrule 3.36\nApplication to vary or rescind a live link direction\nrule 3.37\nApplication containing information withheld from another party\nrule 3.38\nRepresentations in response\nrule 3.39",
  "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/3",
    "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."
}