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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/172",
  "legislation_title": "The Standing Civilian Courts Order 1997",
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  "path": "article/78",
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  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Postponement of deliberation on sentence",
  "text": "The court may, if it thinks that the interests of justice so require and subject to article 53 above, postpone its deliberation on the sentence to be awarded to any accused until—\n(a) where two or more accused are tried separately by the same court on charges arising out of the same transaction, it has recorded and announced its findings in respect of all the accused; or\n(b) where an accused is to be tried on charges arising out of a different transaction, it has recorded and announced its findings in respect of those charges.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/172/article/78",
    "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."
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