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Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2024: key changes on live links, court record correction, confiscation/cryptoassets, restraint costs, disclosure, pre-charge bail, witnesses and investigation orders (England and Wales)

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This Practice Note outlines the principal changes to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020, SI 2020/759 (CrimPR) made by the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2024, SI 2024/62, which came into force on 1 April 2024. The amendments comprise:

  • extending live link direction provisions to extradition proceedings;
  • additional and revised rules for correcting court records;
  • re-drafted confiscation rules, including new provisions to meet requirements imposed by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023);
  • amended rules on cost orders in restraint proceedings; and
  • updated rules on disclosure management, witness companions, and applications to vary conditions of pre-charge bail.

Live links

In August 2022, the Criminal Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2022, SI 2022/815, introduced various provisions supplementing statutory powers in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (PCCSA 2022) to direct the use of a live link in criminal proceedings. Comparable amendments for extradition under the Extradition Act 2003 (EA 2003) were not incorporated into CrimPR at that time. To remedy that omission, CrimPR, SI 2020/759, rr 2.2, 3.1 and 50.3 are amended to make the necessary references...

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