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9.6.—(1) This rule applies where a prosecutor with power to do so requires a magistrates’ court to send for trial in the Crown Court—
(a)a case of serious or complex fraud; or
(b)a case which will involve a child witness.
(2) The prosecutor must serve notice of that requirement—
(a)on the magistrates’ court officer and on the defendant; and
(b)before trial in a magistrates’ court begins under Part 24 (Trial and sentence in a magistrates’ court).
(3) The notice must identify—
(a)the power on which the prosecutor relies; and
(b)the Crown Court centre at which the prosecutor wants the trial to take place.
(4) The prosecutor—
(a)must, when choosing a Crown Court centre, take into account the matters listed in rule 9.3(3) (court deciding to which Crown Court centre to send a case); and
(b)may change the centre identified before the case is sent for trial.
[Note. Under section 51B of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998(1), the Director of Public Prosecutions or a Secretary of State may require the court to send a case for trial in the Crown Court if, in that prosecutor’s opinion, the evidence of the offence charged—
(a)is sufficient for the person charged to be put on trial for the offence; and
(b)reveals a case of fraud of such seriousness or complexity that it is appropriate that the management of the case should without delay be taken over by the Crown Court.
Under section 51C of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998(2), the Director of Public Prosecutions may require the court to send for trial in the Crown Court a case involving one of certain specified violent or sexual offences if, in the Director’s opinion—
(a)the evidence of the offence would be sufficient for the person charged to be put on trial for that offence;
(b)a child would be called as a witness at the trial; and
(c)for the purpose of avoiding any prejudice to the welfare of the child, the case should be taken over and proceeded with without delay by the Crown Court.
‘Child’ for these purposes is defined by section 51C(7) of the 1998 Act.]
Commencement Information
I1Rule 9.6 in force at 5.10.2020, see Preamble
1998 c. 37; section 51B was inserted by paragraphs 15 and 18 of Schedule 3 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) and amended by section 50 of, and paragraph 69 of Schedule 4 to, the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11) and paragraphs 46 and 48 of Schedule 5 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10).
1998 c. 37; section 51C was inserted by paragraphs 15 and 18 of Schedule 3 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) and modified by section 63 of, and paragraph 36 of Schedule 6 to, the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27).
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