{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-37.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-37.4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/37.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "37.4",
  "heading": "Crown Court judge’s permission to appeal",
  "text": "(1) An appellant who wants the Crown Court judge to give permission to appeal must—\n(a) apply orally, with reasons, immediately after the order or ruling against which the appellant wants to appeal; or\n(b) apply in writing and serve the application on—\n(i) the Crown Court officer, and\n(ii) every party directly affected by the order or ruling\nnot more than 2 business days after that order or ruling.\n(2) A written application must include the same information (with the necessary adaptations) as an appeal notice.\n[Note. For the Crown Court judge’s power to give permission to appeal, see section 9(11) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987, section 35(1) of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 and section 47(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 37.4 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/37.4",
    "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."
}