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CrimPR 2025 (England and Wales): consolidation, new deposition procedure, Crown Court staff power to amend community/suspended orders, reporting restrictions review, streamlined confiscation appeals, renumbering—October 2025 update

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This Practice Note is archived and no longer updated. It outlines the principal amendments made to the Criminal Procedure Rules (CrimPR) on 6 October 2025, when the Criminal Procedure Rules 2025 (CrimPR 2025), SI 2025/909, superseded and revoked the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 (CrimPR 2020), SI 2020/759. The CrimPR, which regulate practice and procedure across all criminal courts in England and Wales — including magistrates’ courts, the Crown Court, the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and extradition appeal matters in the High Court — are consolidated and republished every five years. This consolidation brings in fresh procedural provisions concerning the authority of Crown Court staff to vary community and suspended sentence orders, and the taking of depositions in magistrates’ courts; it also revises existing rules to harmonise confiscation appeals with ordinary Court of Appeal processes, broadening the occasions when reporting restrictions and public access arrangements must be reconsidered, while excising previously revoked rules, with the accompanying renumbering and cross‑reference adjustments required. For guidance on the overall scope and operation of the CrimPR, see Practice Note: The Criminal Procedure Rules. For deeper commentary on CrimPR 2025, SI 2025/909, see News Analysis: The Criminal as noted above in this archived practice...

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