# The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025, Rule 26.3: Provision of information for jurors

Extent: E+W

The court officer must arrange for each juror to receive—
(a) by such means as the Lord Chancellor directs, general information about jury service and about a juror’s responsibilities;
(b) written notice of the prohibitions against—
(i) research by a juror into the case,
(ii) disclosure by a juror of any such research to another juror during the trial,
(iii) conduct by a juror which suggests that that juror intends to try the case otherwise than on the evidence, and
(iv) disclosure by a juror of the deliberations of the jury; and
(c) written warning that breach of those prohibitions is an offence, for which the penalty is imprisonment or a fine or both, and may be a contempt of court.
[Note. See sections 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D of the Juries Act 1974.]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/26.3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-26.3/enacted
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