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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