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Article 7 Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

In paragraph 1(1) in Part 1 of Schedule 4—

(a)

in the definition of “trial advocate” add at the end “including a Queen’s Counsel or a leading junior counsel so instructed after the hearing at which pleas are taken”;

(b)

in the definition of “main hearing”—

(i)

in paragraph (b) omit “or cracked trial”; and

(ii)

after paragraph (b) insert —

“(bb)

in relation to a cracked trial, the hearing at which—

(i)

the case becomes a cracked trial by meeting the conditions in paragraph 9(3) or (4), whether or not any pleas were taken at that hearing; or

(ii)

a formal verdict of not guilty was entered as a result of the prosecution offering no evidence under the administrative procedure, whether or not the parties were required by the court to attend the hearing;”.