{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-39.11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-39.11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/39.11",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "39.11",
  "heading": "Right to attend hearing",
  "text": "A party who is in custody has a right to attend a hearing in public unless—\n(a) it is a hearing preliminary or incidental to an appeal, including the hearing of an application for permission to appeal;\n(b) it is the hearing of an appeal and the court directs that—\n(i) the appeal involves a question of law alone, and\n(ii) for that reason the appellant has no permission to attend; or\n(c) that party is in custody in consequence of—\n(i) a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, or\n(ii) a finding of disability.\n[Note. See rule 36.6 (Hearings) and section 22 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968. There are corresponding provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Mandatory Life Sentences: Appeals in Transitional Cases) Order 2005, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Appeals under section 74) Order 2006and the Serious Crime Act 2007 (Appeals under Section 24) Order 2008. Under section 22 of the 1968 Act and corresponding provisions in those Orders, the court may direct that an appellant who is in custody is to attend a hearing by live link.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 39.11 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 19; section 22 was amended by section 48 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/2798."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/2135."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/1863."
    }
  ],
  "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/39.11",
    "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."
}