The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2007
These Rules add the following new provisions to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (“the Rules”):A new Part 4 (service of documents), in substitution for the existing Part 4, which consolidates, revises and simplifies the rules about the service of documents in criminal cases.A new Part 14 (indictments), in substitution for the existing Part 14, which revises and simplifies the rules about the service, form and content of indictments. In some circumstances the new rules allow more than one incident of the same offence to be charged in a single paragraph of an indictment, which was not explicitly permitted by the rules these replace.A new Part 28 (witness summonses, warrants and orders), in substitution for the existing Part 28, which revises and simplifies the rules about applications for witnesses to give evidence or produce documents for use in evidence. The new rules require the court to consider the rights of those to whom confidential information or documents relate before a witness can be required to give evidence about them. They allow for applications to set aside orders that have been made.New rules in Part 2 (when the Rules apply) explain when the new rules in Parts 14 and 28 will apply.