The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 No. 144 (L. 2)

Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015

3.  In Part 8 (Initial details of the prosecution case)—

(a) after rule 8.3 (Content of initial details) insert—

“Use of initial details

8.4.— (1) This rule applies where—

(a) the prosecutor wants to introduce information contained in a document listed in rule 8.3; and

(b) the prosecutor has not—

(i) served that document on the defendant, or

(ii) made that information available to the defendant.

(2) The court must not allow the prosecutor to introduce that information unless the court first allows the defendant sufficient time to consider it.”; and

(b) amend the table of contents correspondingly.