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Rule 21.5 Reasons for decisionsI1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

The court must announce at a hearing in public (but in the absence of the jury, if there is one) the reasons for a decision—

(a)

to admit evidence as evidence of bad character, or to refuse to do so; or

(b)

to direct an acquittal or a retrial under section 107 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

[Note. See section 110 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.]

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Commencement

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Rule 21.5 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble