Rule 4 Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2011

In Part 3 (Case management)—

(a)

in rule 3.5 (The court’s case management powers), for paragraph (2)(h) substitute—

“(h)
require that issues in the case should be—

(i)
identified in writing,

(ii)
determined separately, and decide in what order they will be determined;”; and

(b)

in the note at the end of the Part—

(i)

under the heading ‘Criminal Procedure Rules’, omit the entry for rule 12.2, and

(ii)

under the heading ‘Regulations’, for ‘The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Defence Disclosure Time Limits) Regulations 1997’ substitute ‘The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Defence Disclosure Time Limits) Regulations 2011’.