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Criminal Procedure Rules 2025 (England and Wales): consolidation, renumbering, and key updates on reporting restrictions, community/suspended order amendments, depositions and confiscation appeals, effective 6 October 2025

Published on: 12 September 2025

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Two decades have passed since the Criminal Procedure Rules were first brought in to simplify, codify and clarify criminal procedure. In 2009, the then Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, Lord Justice Leveson, stressed that everyone involved in criminal cases — including Magistrates, District Judges and Justices’ Clerks — must adhere to and apply the Criminal Procedure Rules. They are not simply guidance; compliance is obligatory. The term ‘must’ in the Rules means precisely that. That remains the position today.

What are the key changes?

The main revisions to CrimPR 2020, SI 2020/759, made by CrimPR 2025, SI 2025/909, capture the nine subsequent sets of amendments to CrimPR 2020 and undertake wider housekeeping: removing the glossary from CrimPR 2025, updating cross references within the rules, promoting consistent wording, and renumbering earlier provisions. These steps are intended to make CrimPR 2025 more user-friendly and simpler to navigate, a welcome development given their importance in proceedings and the routine reliance parties must place upon them.

What new rules are introduced?

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