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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reports-relating-to-adult-witnesses-rules-2004/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2419",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reports Relating to Adult Witnesses) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reports-relating-to-adult-witnesses-rules-2004",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Decisions of the court",
  "text": "(1) The court may–\n(a) determine any application made under these Rules without a hearing; or\n(b) direct a hearing of any application.\n(2) The justices' chief executive of the court shall notify all the parties of the court’s decision as soon as reasonably practicable.\n(3) If a hearing of an application is to take place, the justices' chief executive for the court shall notify each party to the proceedings of the time and place of the hearing.\n(4) A court may hear and take into account representations made to it by any person who in the court’s view has a legitimate interest in the application before it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2419/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:18:28.311623+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."
}