The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2008
These Rules add the following new provisions to The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005:a new Part 21 (Initial details of prosecution case), in substitution for the existing Part 21 (Advance information in magistrates' courts), which revises and simplifies the rules about the early provision of details of the prosecution case. The new Part 21 applies unless the court otherwise directs, to allow for the gradual introduction of the arrangements with which it deals into all magistrates' courts and all categories of case. If the court disapplies the new rules, the rules in the old Part 21 will continue to apply.a new Part 37 (Trial and sentence in a magistrates' court), in substitution for the existing Part 37 (Summary trial) and Part 38 (Trial of children and young persons), which consolidates, revises and simplifies the rules about procedure at trial in magistrates' courts, including youth courts.a new Part 44 (Breach, revocation and amendment of community and other orders in a magistrates' court), in substitution for the existing Part 44 (Sentencing children and young persons). The rules about trial and sentence procedure in magistrates' courts now are all contained in the new Part 37. The new Part 44 rules therefore deal only with the procedures relating to community and other orders to which some of the old Part 38 and Part 44 rules applied.new rules in Part 2 (Understanding and applying the Rules) make transitional provision and explain when the new rules in Part 21, Part 37 and Part 44 will apply.