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The Criminal Procedure Rules 2010

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Constitution of the Crown Court

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63.10.  On the hearing of an appeal—

(a)the general rule is that the Crown Court must comprise—

(i)a judge of the High Court, a Circuit judge or a Recorder, and

(ii)no less than two and no more than four justices of the peace, none of whom took part in the decision under appeal; and

(b)if the appeal is from a youth court—

(i)each justice of the peace must be qualified to sit as a member of a youth court, and

(ii)the Crown Court must include a man and a woman; but

(c)the Crown Court may include only one justice of the peace and need not include both a man and a woman if—

(i)the presiding judge decides that otherwise the start of the appeal hearing will be delayed unreasonably, or

(ii)one or more of the justices of the peace who started hearing the appeal is absent.

[Note. See sections 73 and 74 of the Senior Courts Act 1981(1), section 45 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933(2) and section 9 of the Courts Act 2003(3).]

(1)

1981 c. 54; section 73(2) was amended by article 3 of, and paragraphs 11 and 12(b) of the Schedule to, S.I. 2004/2035. Section 74 was amended by sections 79 and 106 of, and Table (4) of Part V of Schedule 15 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22), article 3 of, and paragraphs 11 and 12(c) of the Schedule to, S.I. 2004/2035 and section 15 of, and paragraphs 114 and 133 of Schedule 4 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4). 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).

(2)

1933 c. 12; section 45 was substituted by section 50 of the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39) and amended by section 15 of, and paragraph 20 of Schedule 4 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).

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