F4Procedure prior to Trial

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Amendments (Textual)

F4Procedure at trial involving children

F4165 Child under 14 not to be in court during trial of another person.

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F4166 Power to clear court while child is giving evidence in certain cases.

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F4167 Power to proceed with case in absence of person under 17.

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F4168 Power of court, in respect of certain offences against a child, to refer child to F1Principal Reporter.

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169F4Restrictions on report of proceedings involving person under 16.

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No newspaper report of any proceedings in a court shall reveal the name, address or school, or include any particulars calculated to lead to the identification, of any person under the age of 16 years concerned in the proceedings, either—

a

as being a person against or in respect of whom the proceedings are taken; or

b

as being a witness therein;

nor shall any picture which is, or includes, a picture of a person under the age of 16 years so concerned in the proceedings be published in any newspaper in a context relevant to the proceedings:

Provided that, in any case—

  1. i

    where the person is concerned in the proceedings as a witness only and no one against whom the proceedings are taken is under the age of 16 years, the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply unless the court so directs;

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    the court may at any stage of the proceedings if satisfied that it is in the public interest so to do, direct that the requirements of this section (including such requirements as applied by a direction under paragraph (i) above) shall be dispensed with to such extent as the court may specify;

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    the Secretary of State may, after completion of the proceedings, if so satisfied by order dispense with the said requirements to such extent as may be specified in the order.

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This section shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in relation to sound and television F2programmes included in a programme service (within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1990) as it applies in relation to newspapers.

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A person who publishes matter in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F3level 4 on the standard scale.

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In this section, references to a court shall not include a court in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.

F4170 Age of criminal responsibility.

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F4171 Presumption and determination of age of child.

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F4172 Welfare of child.

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F4173 Reference and remit of children’s cases by courts to children’s hearings.

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