Rule 8 Applications in relation to bail
Northern Ireland
Every application, other than an application during a trial before the Court, shall be made by delivering to the office of the chief clerk at Belfast a notice setting out the grounds of the application and referring to any earlier application to the Court, the High Court or a magistrates' court in the same proceedings
An application by a defendant shall be in Form 1 in the schedule and an application by any other person shall be in Form 1A.
The chief clerk on receiving the notice shall—
give a copy thereof to the prosecutor, unless he is the applicant, and at the same time inform him by telephone of the terms of the notice;
where the application has been made by the prosecutor or a surety in respect of a defendant who is on bail, give a copy of the notice to that defendant; and
subject to any direction of the Court, list the application for hearing for a time not later than 7 days from the date on which he received the notice and inform the defendant and the prosecutor and, where he is the applicant, the surety of the time and place of the hearing.
The hearing shall be at Belfast unless the chief clerk at Belfast, subject to and in accordance with directions of a judge, arranges otherwise.