Rule 14.3 Duty of justices’ legal adviserI1
England and Wales
(1)
This rule applies—
(a)
only in a magistrates’ court; and
(b)
unless the court—
(i)
includes a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts), and
(ii)
otherwise directs.
(2)
A justices’ legal adviser must ask such questions as may be needed to obtain information sufficient to allow the court to make such decisions as are required.
[Note. For the functions of a justices’ legal adviser, see sections 28 and 29 of the Courts Act 2003f1. See also rule 2.12 (Duties of justices’ legal adviser).]
Annotations
Commencement
Footnotes
- f1
2003 c. 39; section 28 was amended by section 15 of, and paragraphs 308 and 327 of Schedule 4 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).