{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-42.15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-42.15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/42.15",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "42.15",
  "heading": "Notice of appeal",
  "text": "(1) Where an appellant wishes to apply to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal under section 13B, 43 or 65 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Act, the appellant must serve a notice of appeal in the form issued under the Practice Direction on the Registrar.\n(2) Unless the Registrar, a single judge or the Court of Appeal directs otherwise, the appellant must serve the notice of appeal, accompanied by a respondent’s notice in the form issued under the Practice Direction for the respondent to complete, on—\n(a) each respondent; and\n(b) any person who holds realisable property to which the appeal relates or who is affected by the appeal (and each such person then becomes a respondent),\nas soon as practicable and in any event not later than 5 business days after the notice of appeal is served on the Registrar.\n(3) The notice of appeal must—\n(a) specify each order or ruling against which the appellant wants to appeal;\n(b) identify each ground of appeal on which the appellant relies, numbering them consecutively (if there is more than one) and concisely outlining each argument in support;\n(c) summarise the relevant facts;\n(d) identify any relevant authorities;\n(e) include or attach any application, with reasons, for—\n(i) an extension of time within which to serve the notice of appeal, or\n(ii) a direction to attend in person a hearing that the appellant could attend by live link, if the appellant is in custody;\n(f) identify any document or thing that the appellant thinks the court will need to decide the appeal and include or attach an electronic link to each such document that has been made available to the Registrar under rule 42.5(1)(a) (Duty of Crown Court officer); and\n(g) unless an authority identified by the grounds of appeal (see paragraph (3)(d)) is published by the Registrar as one frequently cited, include or attach—\n(i) an electronic copy of each authority so identified, or\n(ii) if two or more such authorities not so published are identified, electronic copies of each together in a single electronic document.\n(4) The appellant must provide the Registrar with a certificate of service stating that the appellant has served the notice of appeal on each respondent or explaining why it has not been possible to do so.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 42.15 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/42.15",
    "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."
}