{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-66E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-66E.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981",
  "path": "rule/66E",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "66E",
  "heading": "Publication of information about court hearings",
  "text": "(1) Where a case is due to be heard in public, the designated officer must—\n(a) publish the information listed in paragraph (2)—\n(i) if that information is available to the designated officer, and\n(ii) unless the publication of that information is prohibited by a reporting restriction; and\n(b) publish that information for no longer than 5 business days—\n(i) by notice displayed somewhere prominent in the vicinity of a court room in which the hearing is due to take place, and\n(ii) by such arrangements as the Lord Chancellor directs, including arrangements for publication by electronic means, but only to the extent needed to comply with the open justice principle.\n(2) The information that paragraph (1) requires the designated officer to publish is—\n(a) the date, time and place of the hearing;\n(b) the identity of the parties; and\n(c) such other information as it may be practicable to publish concerning—\n(i) the type of hearing,\n(ii) the identity of the court,\n(iii) in general terms, the subject of the proceedings, and\n(iv) whether any reporting or access restriction applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 66A-66E substituted for rules 66A, 66B (28.6.2021) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/626), rules 1(1), 2(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/552/rule/66E",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:40:56.682539+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."
}