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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Criminal Appeal (Retrial for Serious Offences) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005—

  • to prescribe those applications which may be heard by the proper officer;

  • to prescribe those applications which may be heard by a single Judge of the Court of Appeal; and

  • to provide that where the proper officer or, as the case may be, a single judge of the Court has refused an application, the party may renew the application to a single judge of the Court of Appeal or, as the case may be, the full Court.