{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-3/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-3/enacted.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/enacted",
  "path": "part/3",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "CASE MANAGEMENT",
  "text": "Contents of this Part\nGeneral rules\nWhen this Part appliesrule 3.1\nThe duty of the courtrule 3.2\nThe duty of the partiesrule 3.3\nCase progression officers and their dutiesrule 3.4\nThe court’s case management powersrule 3.5\nApplication to vary a directionrule 3.6\nAgreement to vary a time limit fixed by a directionrule 3.7\nCase preparation and progressionrule 3.8\nGround rules hearingrule 3.9\nDirections for commissioning medical reports, other than for sentencing purposesrule 3.10\nHearing to inform the court of sensitive materialrule 3.11\nReadiness for trial or appealrule 3.12\nConduct of a trial or an appealrule 3.13\nDuty of court officerrule 3.14\nCourt’s power to vary requirements under this Partrule 3.15\nPreparation for trial in a magistrates’ court\nPre-trial hearings in a magistrates’ court: general rulesrule 3.16\nPlace of magistrates’ court trialrule 3.17\nUse of Welsh language at magistrates’ court trialrule 3.18\nPreparation for trial in the Crown Court\nService of prosecution evidencerule 3.19\nApplication to dismiss offence sent for Crown Court trialrule 3.20\nPre-trial hearings in the Crown Court: general rulesrule 3.21\nPreparatory hearingrule 3.22\nApplication for preparatory hearingrule 3.23\nApplication for non-jury trial containing information withheld from a defendantrule 3.24\nRepresentations in response to application for preparatory hearingrule 3.25\nCommencement of preparatory hearingrule 3.26\nDefence trial advocaterule 3.27\nApplication to stay case for abuse of processrule 3.28\nApplication for joint or separate trials, etc.rule 3.29\nOrder for joint or separate trials, or amendment of the indictmentrule 3.30\nApplication for indication of sentencerule 3.31\nArraigning the defendant on the indictmentrule 3.32\nPlace of Crown Court trialrule 3.33\nUse of Welsh language at Crown Court trialrule 3.34\nLive links\nLive link direction: exercise of court’s powersrule 3.35\nContent of application for a live link directionrule 3.36\nApplication to vary or rescind a live link directionrule 3.37\nApplication containing information withheld from another partyrule 3.38\nRepresentations in responserule 3.39",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "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."
}