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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2008/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2008/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110835150",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Appeals Tribunals Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2008",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Legal and other representation",
  "text": "(1) The appellant has the right to be represented at a hearing by a relevant lawyer or a police friend.\n(2) Where the appellant is represented at the hearing by a relevant lawyer, he may also be accompanied at the hearing by a police friend.\n(3) If an appellant chooses not to be represented, the hearing may take place and the appeal may be determined without him being represented.\n(4) The respondent has the right to be represented at a hearing by a relevant lawyer or by an officer of the police force or by the chief executive or other officer or employee of the relevant police authority.\n(5) Where a police friend is a police officer or a police staff member, the chief officer of police of the force of which the police friend is a member shall permit him to use a reasonable amount of duty time for the purposes referred to in this rule.\n(6) The reference in paragraph (5) to the force of which the police friend is a member shall include a reference to the force maintained for the police area for which a special constable is appointed and the force in which a police staff member is serving.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110835150/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:56.344753+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."
}