The Criminal Practice Directions 2023 - A Bitesize Guide
Introduction
This 30-minute webinar will provide a condensed overview of the key issues criminal practitioners should be aware of in the 2023 Criminal Practice Directions.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- The purpose and function of the Directions and how they assist in your everyday work
- Chapter 4 - Custody and Bail
- Securities and sureties
- Failure to surrender to bail
- Initiation of criminal proceedings
- Adjournments
- Burden upon the accused to prove a reasonable cause for failure to surrender
- Surrender to court on the warrant
- Actions to be taken by the Court
- Refusal of bail during the trial itself
- Chapter 5 - Trial Management
- Circumstances in which the court should order a pre-sentence report
- Initial details of the prosecution Case (IDPC)
- Adjournments of trials
- Absence of the defendant
- How the court should proceed where the defendant is 18 or over
- How the court should proceed where the defendant is under 18
- Non-appearance of witnesses
- Late evidence produced at trial
- Failure on the part of the prosecution to comply with disclosure obligations
- Chapter 6 - Vulnerable People and Witness Evidence
- Chapter 7 - Sentencing
- Pre-sentence reports
- Committals for sentence
- Guilty pleas on a basis
- Newton hearings
- Chapter 10 - Appeals to the Court of Appeal
This webinar was recorded on 8th November 2023
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