The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2024

Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules

8.  In Part 18 (Measures to help a witness or defendant to give evidence or otherwise participate)—

(a) in rule 18.1 (When this Part applies)—

(i) omit paragraph (c), and

(ii) renumber paragraphs (d) to (f) as (c) to (e) respectively;

(b) in rule 18.3 (Meaning of ‘intermediary’ and ‘intermediary’s report’), in paragraph (a)—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (ii), and

(ii) renumber sub-paragraphs (iii) and (iv) as (ii) and (iii) respectively;

(c) in rule 18.8 (Special measures directions; Exercise of court’s powers), in paragraph (2)—

(i) at the end of sub-paragraph (b) omit “and”, and

(ii) after sub-paragraph (c) insert—

“(d) the date by which any application must be made to exclude as evidence any part of the recording; and

(e) the date by which any editing of the recording must be completed.”;

(d) omit—

(i) the cross-heading “Defendant’s evidence direction” after rule 18.13 (Special measures directions; Representations in response), and

(ii) rules 18.14 (Defendant’s evidence directions; Exercise of court’s powers) to 18.17 (Defendant’s evidence directions; Representations in response) inclusive; and

(e) amend the table of contents correspondingly.