The Criminal Procedure Rules 2015

Reasons for decisions

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21.5.  The court must announce at a hearing in public (but in the absence of the jury, if there is one) the reasons for a decision—

(a)to admit evidence as evidence of bad character, or to refuse to do so; or

(b)to direct an acquittal or a retrial under section 107 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

[Note. See section 110 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.]