Course description
This short webinar will provide a condensed overview of the key issues criminal practitioners should be aware of in the 2023 Criminal Practice Directions.
In just 30 minutes, popular and experienced speaker Colin Beaumont will explore the purpose and function of the Directions and how they assist in your everyday work, while looking specifically at Chapter 4 - Custody and Bail, chapter 5 - Trial Management, chapter 6 - Vulnerable People and Witness Evidence, Chapter 7 - Sentencing, and Chapter 10 - Appeals to the Court of Appeal.
Colin has been training the profession for more than 20 years on topics including road traffic crime, advocacy, trials, police station advice and all aspects of criminal legal aid billing. Be sure to tune in for his expert guidance.
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Training Course Content
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
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