{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-6.8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-6.8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/6.8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.8",
  "heading": "Order about restriction or trial in private",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where the court—\n(a) orders, varies or removes a reporting or access restriction; or\n(b) orders a trial in private.\n(2) The court officer must—\n(a) record the court’s reasons for the decision; and\n(b) as soon as reasonably practicable, arrange for notice of the decision to be—\n(i) displayed somewhere prominent in the vicinity of the courtroom, and\n(ii) communicated to reporters by such other arrangements as the Lord Chancellor directs.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6.8 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/6.8",
    "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."
}