The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005

Service of documents in Crown Court proceedings

4.3.  Except where any other rule contains provision to the contrary, any notice or other document which is required by these Rules to be given to any person in respect of Crown Court proceedings may be served personally on that person or sent to him by post at his usual or last known residence or place of business in England or Wales or, in the case of a company, at the company’s registered office in England or Wales.

[Note. Formerly rule 28 of the Crown Court Rules 1982(1). For further rules of service applicable in particular circumstances see rules 13.6 (dismissal of charges transferred or sent), 15.8 (preparatory hearings), 34.6 (hearsay evidence), 35.7 (evidence of bad character), 40.3 (tainted acquittals), 41.17 (retrial following acquittal) and 57.11 to 57.14 (proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002(2)). As to service of documents in an appeal to the Court of Appeal see rule 68.1 and the rules listed in the explanatory note to that rule.]

(1)

S.I. 1982/1109.

(2)

2002 c. 29.