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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standing-civilian-courts-order-1997/article-68",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/172",
  "legislation_title": "The Standing Civilian Courts Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standing-civilian-courts-order-1997",
  "path": "article/68",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Closing addresses",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the prosecutor and the accused may each make a closing address to the court.\n(2) Except with the leave of the court, neither the prosecutor nor the accused may make a closing address to the court if he has already made an opening address, but where one party is granted leave every other party may also make a closing address.\n(3) Where two or more accused are represented by the same legal adviser, he may make only one closing address.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/172/article/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:04.339831+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."
}