{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-36.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-36.6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/36.6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "36.6",
  "heading": "Hearings",
  "text": "(1) The general rule is that the Court of Appeal must hear in public—\n(a) an application, including an application for permission to appeal; and\n(b) an appeal or reference,\nbut it may order any hearing to be in private.\n(2) Where a hearing is about a public interest ruling, that hearing must be in private unless the court otherwise directs.\n(3) Where the appellant wants to appeal against an order restricting public access to a trial, the court—\n(a) may decide without a hearing—\n(i) an application, including an application for permission to appeal, and\n(ii) an appeal; but\n(b) must announce its decision on such an appeal at a hearing in public.\n(4) Where the appellant wants to appeal or to refer a case to the Supreme Court, the court—\n(a) may decide without a hearing an application—\n(i) for permission to appeal or to refer a sentencing case, or\n(ii) to refer a point of law; but\n(b) must announce its decision on such an application at a hearing in public.\n(5) Where a party wants the court to reopen the determination of an appeal—\n(a) the court—\n(i) must decide the application without a hearing, as a general rule, but\n(ii) may decide the application at a hearing; and\n(b) need not announce its decision on such an application at a hearing in public.\n(6) A judge of the Court of Appeal and the Registrar may exercise any of their powers—\n(a) at a hearing in public or in private; or\n(b) without a hearing.\n[Note. For the procedure on an appeal against an order restricting public access to a trial, see Part 40.\nFor the procedure on an application to reopen the determination of an appeal, see rule 36.15.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 36.6 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/36.6",
    "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."
}