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23.6.—(1) This rule applies where—
(a)an applicant serves an application for the court to impose a prohibition against cross-examination, or for the discharge of such a prohibition; and
(b)the application includes information that the applicant thinks ought not be revealed to another party.
(2) The applicant must—
(a)omit that information from the part of the application that is served on that other party;
(b)mark the other part to show that, unless the court otherwise directs, it is only for the court; and
(c)in that other part, explain why the applicant has withheld that information from that other party.
(3) Any hearing of an application to which this rule applies—
(a)must be in private, unless the court otherwise directs; and
(b)if the court so directs, may be, wholly or in part, in the absence of a party from whom information has been withheld.
(4) At any hearing of an application to which this rule applies—
(a)the general rule is that the court must consider, in the following sequence—
(i)representations first by the applicant and then by each other party, in all the parties’ presence, and then
(ii)further representations by the applicant, in the absence of a party from whom information has been withheld; but
(b)the court may direct other arrangements for the hearing.
[Note. See section 37 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.]
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I1Rule 23.6 in force at 5.10.2020, see Preamble
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