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Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2025 (SI 2025/60): changes to CrimPR 2020 (England and Wales) covering bank records, hearsay, fines, prosecution appeals, receivership costs, contempt, and corrections to 2024 rules

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This Note outlines the principal changes to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 (CrimPR 2020), SI 2020/759 brought in by the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2025, SI 2025/60. Most provisions start on 7 April 2025, with limited updates taking effect on 24 February 2025.

  • Procedures for inspecting and copying banking records updated
  • Admissibility of hearsay evidence clarified
  • Magistrates’ courts’ powers to vary fines and payment terms clarified
  • Time limit for prosecution appeals against Crown Court rulings altered

Further revisions extend certain costs order rules to receivership proceedings, refine the approach to contempt of court cases, and remedy errors introduced by the Criminal Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2024, SI 2024/842. The Criminal Procedure Rule Committee has issued a guide to the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2025, available here.

Correction of errors and amendments to the Criminal Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2024

These corrective amendments are in force from 24 February 2025. The Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments previously reported the Criminal Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2024, SI 2024/842...

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