The Criminal Procedure Rules 2011 (revoked)

PART 28F1 U.K. WITNESS SUMMONSES, WARRANTS AND ORDERS

Textual Amendments

F1 Rules revoked (1.10.2012) by The Criminal Procedure Rules 2012 (S.I. 2012/1726), Preamble

[Note. A magistrates' court may require the attendance of a witness to give evidence or to produce in evidence a document or thing by a summons, or in some circumstances a warrant for the witness' arrest, under section 97 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980. The Crown Court may do so under sections 2, 2D, 3 and 4 of the Criminal Procedure (Attendance of Witnesses) Act 1965. Either court may order the production in evidence of a copy of an entry in a banker's book without the attendance of an officer of the bank, under sections 6 and 7 of the Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879.

See Part 3 for the court's general powers to consider an application and to give directions.]

When this Part applies U.K.

28.1.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Issue etc. of summons, warrant or order with or without a hearing U.K.

28.2.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Application for summons, warrant or order: general rules U.K.

28.3.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Written application: form and service U.K.

28.4.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Application for summons to produce a document, etc.: special rules U.K.

28.5.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Application for summons to produce a document, etc.: court's assessment of relevance and confidentiality U.K.

28.6.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Application to withdraw a summons, warrant or order U.K.

28.7.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Court's power to vary requirements under this Part U.K.

28.8.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .