Guidance
Criminal Procedure Rules and Practice Directions
Published 2010-07-15Last updated 2022-07-15
The Criminal Procedure Rules (external link) and their related practice directions provide for the procedure to be followed in criminal proceedings in magistrates’ courts, the Crown Court, the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and, in extradition appeal cases, the High Court.
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Other guidance whose text is closest in subject to this document, found by similarity of wording rather than by citation.
- Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Directions2022-07-15
- Family Procedure Rules and Practice Directions2022-07-15
- Criminal Practice Directions 2015 consolidated with Amendment No. 22022-07-25
- Criminal Practice Directions 2015 [2015] EWCA Crim 1567 consolidated with Amendment No.1 to the Criminal Practice Directions 2015 [2016] EWCA Crim 972022-07-25
- Updated: Practice Direction on Committal for Contempt of Court in Open Court2025-02-17