{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-3.25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-3.25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/3.25",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.25",
  "heading": "Representations in response to application for preparatory hearing",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where a party wants to make representations about—\n(a) an application for a preparatory hearing; or\n(b) an application for a trial without a jury.\n(2) Such a party must—\n(a) serve the representations on—\n(i) the court officer, and\n(ii) each other party;\n(b) do so not more than 10 business days after service of the application; and\n(c) ask for a hearing, if that party wants one, and explain why it is needed.\n(3) Where representations include information that the person making them thinks ought not be revealed to another party, that person must—\n(a) omit that information from the representations served on that other party;\n(b) mark the information to show that, unless the court otherwise directs, it is only for the court; and\n(c) with that information include an explanation of why it has been withheld from that other party.\n(4) Representations against an application for an order must explain why the conditions for making it are not met.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 3.25 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    }
  ],
  "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/3.25",
    "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."
}