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The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1997
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Amendment of Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981
8. For rule 8 (order for attendance of witnesses at court of trial) there shall be substituted—
“Court’s reminder to a defendant: right to object to written evidence being read at trial without further proof
8. A magistrates' court which commits a person for trial shall forthwith remind him of his right to object, by written notification to the prosecutor and the Crown Court within 14 days of being committed unless that court in its discretion permits such an objection to be made outside that period, to a statement or deposition being read as evidence at the trial without oral evidence being given by the person who made the statement or deposition, and without the opportunity to cross-examine that person.”.
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