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Criminal Procedure Rules: Key Changes Effective 3 October 2022—Indictments, Private Prosecutions, Case Stated, Behaviour Orders, Court Records and Fitness to Plead (England and Wales)

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It outlines the principal revisions to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020, SI 2020/759 (CrimPR), introduced by the Criminal Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2022, SI 2022/815, coming into force on 3 October 2022.

  • Fresh provisions to avoid errors and uncertainty when preferring indictments at arraignment.
  • Clarification of when a magistrates’ court may refuse to issue a summons or warrant for a private prosecution.
  • A stipulated timeframe for courts to answer a request to state a case.
  • Details required on costs applications in private prosecutions.
  • Consolidation of rules concerning court officers’ authority to take statutory declarations, alongside other minor changes.

For further analysis, see News Analysis: Criminal Procedure Rules (CrimPR)—update August 2022 and October 2022. Note that some amendments brought in by SI 2022/815 commenced in August 2022. For those August changes, see Practice Note: Criminal Procedure Rules (CrimPR)—update August 2022 [Archived].

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