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Rule 3.33 Place of Crown Court trialI1

England and Wales

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

(1)

Unless the court otherwise directs, the court officer must arrange for a Crown Court trial to take place in a courtroom provided by the Lord Chancellor.

(2)

The court officer must arrange for the court and the jury (if there is one) to view any place required by the court.

[Note. See section 3 of the Courts Act 2003f1 and section 14 of the Juries Act 1974f2.

In some circumstances the court may conduct all or part of the hearing outside a courtroom.]

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Rule 3.33 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble

Footnotes

f1

2003 c. 39.

f2

1974 c. 23; section 14 was amended by paragraph 173 of Schedule 8 to the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39).