{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-35.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-35.4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/35.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "35.4",
  "heading": "Duty of justices’ legal adviser",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies—\n(a) only in a magistrates’ court; and\n(b) unless the court—\n(i) includes a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts), and\n(ii) otherwise directs.\n(2) A justices’ legal adviser must assist the court by—\n(a) preparing and amending the draft case; and\n(b) completing the case stated.\n[Note. For the functions of a justices’ legal adviser, see sections 28 and 29 of the Courts Act 2003. See also rule 2.12 (Duties of justices’ legal adviser).]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 35.4 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 39; section 28 was amended by section 15 of, and paragraphs 308 and 327 of Schedule 4 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "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/35.4",
    "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."
}