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The Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 1997

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These Rules amend the Criminal Appeals Rules 1968 (“the 1968 Rules”) to take account of the provisions of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (“the 1996 Act”) relating to magistrates’ courts’ procedure at committal proceedings and a courts order restricting publication of a derogatory assertion made against another person in the course of mitigation by or on behalf of a person convicted of an offence. They remove a reference in rule 9(2) of the 1968 Rules to evidence being taken before an examiner in the same way as depositions are taken at committal proceedings, since witnesses will no longer appear at committal proceedings. They also reflect the conferment by the 1996 Act of a right of appeal under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 against an order of a Crown Court restricting publication of a derogatory assertion in a case where it has convicted a person on indictment.

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