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...responsibility for the prosecution of the case from the time or stage specified in Regulation 5: Crown prosecution (type of proceeding) Crown assumes responsibility Category 4 offence After first appearance Schedule offence After plea Non-schedule offence if jury trial elected After case review, if adjourned for trial callover Any other offence if HC After transferred to HC S-G direction After direction given When the Crown assumes responsibility for...
...photographs or to record court proceedings must lodge an application on the prescribed form with the registrar of the court in which the hearing is to take place. Applications need to be made to a specific court hearing, such as a first appearance, entry of plea, case review, trial or sentencing. Applications should be filed with the registrar of the court at least ten working days before the hearing is due to start, except in relation to a first appearance in a criminal matter. District Court...
...some practical boundaries. [12] There is no evidential basis on which to be satisfied that Mr WS did not attend, as he says, on Mr RR’s matter on 17 separate occasions. It is also evident from the materials that Mr RR did not enter a guilty plea at the earliest opportunity, although Mr WS says that had been his expectation when he quoted his fee. That expectation would have affected the amount of the fee quoted. In my view, Mr WS could have charged more, but sensibly did not,...
...and for category 3 offences, if you have not elected to be tried by a jury. Note: with category 3 offences, you have the choice of whether to be tried by a judge-alone or by a judge and jury. For more information refer to the information sheet about pleas and elections Why your case is in the High Court There are a number of reasons why your proceeding is being held in the High Court, including: because you have been charged with a category 4 offence and this is your second appearance; or you...
...| Z A address A speech by a lawyer. adjournment Any break in the hearing of a case. affirmation An oath (a solemn declaration that something is true) that isn’t religious. See ‘swearing in’. arraignment Reading the charge to the defendant, who pleads ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’. B ballot The process used to choose jurors at random. C challenge A way lawyers can stop some people from being selected for the jury. charge Each separate crime alleged against the defendant. charge list...
...charge is not misconduct but slightly lower down the scale of wrongful behaviour therefore should attract a penalty relative to its seriousness. We take account of the responsible approach of Mr Lamborn in reaching a settlement, entering a guilty plea and seeking medical advice. [12] In terms of publication we do not consider Mr Lamborn has displaced the presumption of openness in s.238. We consider privacy of the complainant must be preserved and of the personal details rela...
...outcome, 2015/2016 - 2017/2018 Table 2: Number of people charged with Harmful Digital Communications Act offences, by court and charge outcome, 2015/2016 - 2017/2018 Table 3: Number of people charged with Harmful Digital Communications Act offences, by plea type, 2015/2016 - 2017/2018 Table 4: Number of people convicted of Harmful Digital Communications Act offences, by court and most serious sentence, 2015/2016 - 2017/2018 Table 5: Number of people convicted of Harmful Digital Communi...
...into court-mandated and monitored community-based treatment. MHCs in different countries share a number of elements: • defendants are selected for a programme by a screening process against entry criteria (e.g., clinical criteria, guilty plea, etc) • eligible defendants are given the option of participating in the mental health court • a multidisciplinary team, typically made up of justice and mental health professionals, works with the court to develop a community...
...HCC framework either from the outset, or after a grant of aid has been approved. Once placed under this management system, the grant will remain there until the case has been concluded. 2. Grants will be automatically placed under HCC (where no plea or a not guilty plea has been indicated) if the case relates to one of the following matters: 2.1. homicide offences (including charges of Infanticide) – s158-181 Crimes Act 1961 2.2. serious fraud offences – being all cases in...
...prohibition orders, removal of public funding for section 27 reports, capping of total sentence discounts at 40%, reinstatement of three strikes, imposition of cumulative sentences for offending on bail/while in custody/on parole, capping guilty plea discounts for those awaiting trial/at trial, and the removal of repeat discounts for youth/remorse. The impact of additional Police has not yet been determined and will be included in future projections. 3 Time spent in remand is...