{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-18.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-18.2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/18.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "18.2",
  "heading": "Meaning of ‘witness’ and ‘live link’",
  "text": "In this Part—\n(a) ‘witness’ means anyone (other than a defendant) for whose benefit an application, direction or order is made; and\n(b) ‘live link’, in relation to a witness, means a live television link or other arrangement by which a witness who is absent from the courtroom or other place where the proceedings are being held is able to see and hear a person there and to be seen and heard by—\n(i) the judge or justices (or both) and the jury (if there is one),\n(ii) legal representatives acting in the proceedings, and\n(iii) any interpreter or other person appointed (in pursuance of the direction or otherwise) to assist the witness.\n[Note. See section 24(8) of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 18.2 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/721",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/721",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/18.2",
    "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."
}