The Criminal Procedure Rules 2010

When this Part applies

62.1.—(1) This Part applies—

(a) in the Crown Court, where a person is accused of disobeying—

(i) an order of the Crown Court, or

(ii) any other order, where legislation allows that person to be punished as if that were an order of the Crown Court;

(b) in magistrates’ courts and in the Crown Court, where a person is accused of contempt of court under section 18 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996(1).

(2) In this Part, ‘respondent’ means any such accused person.

[Note. The Crown Court has power to punish for contempt of court a person who disobeys its order: see section 45 of the Senior Courts Act 1981(2).

Under section 18 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, a magistrates’ court and the Crown Court can punish for contempt of court the use of disclosed prosecution material in contravention of section 17 of that Act(3).

• See also—

  (a)

  rule 6.13 and rule 6.22 (disobedience to certain investigation orders);

  (b)

  rule 22.8 (unauthorised disclosure of prosecution material);

  (c)

  rule 59.6 (disobedience to a restraint order).]

(1)

1996 c. 25.

(2)

1981 c. 54. The Act’s title was amended by section 59(5) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).

(3)

1996 c. 25; section 17 was amended by section 331 of, and paragraphs 20 and 33 of Schedule 36 to, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44).