{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-46.5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-46.5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/46.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "46.5",
  "heading": "Application by legal representative to withdraw (legal aid)",
  "text": "An application by a current representative to withdraw from the case must—\n(a) explain what the case is about, including what offences are alleged, what stage it has reached and what is likely to be in issue at trial; and\n(b) explain why the current representative—\n(i) considers there to be a duty to withdraw from the case in accordance with professional rules of conduct, giving details of the nature of that duty, or\n(ii) no longer is able to represent the defendant through circumstances outside the representative’s control, giving details of the particular circumstances that render the representative unable to do so.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 46.5 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/46.5",
    "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."
}