PART 23 RESTRICTION ON CROSS-EXAMINATION BY A DEFENDANT
APPLICATION TO PROHIBIT CROSS-EXAMINATION

Exercise of court’s powers
23.3. (1) The court may decide whether to impose or discharge a prohibition against cross-examination under section 36 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999—
(a) at a hearing, in public or in private, or without a hearing; and
(b) in a party’s absence, if that party—
(i) applied for the prohibition or discharge, or
(ii) has had at least 10 business days in which to make representations.
(2) The court must announce, at a hearing in public before the witness gives evidence, the reasons for a decision—
(a) to impose or discharge such a prohibition; or
(b) to refuse to do so.
[Note. See section 37 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.]
1999 c. 23; section 37 was amended by section 109 of, and paragraph 384(e) of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39).

Rule 23.3 in force at 5.10.2020, see Preamble