Criminal Law Updates from May 2023

This presentation is the 6th in what will be a monthly presentation examining important documents that Colin has been reading in a given month – Colin shall choose documents of relevance and importance to anyone involved in the area of criminal law – each presentation will last for 30 minutes and will give you the ‘distilled essence’ of the documents considered – all of the actual documents will also be available for you to read at your leisure as part of the presentation material provided.

Learning Objectives:

This presentation will cover 12 documents in total – here are just 3 examples of the things you will learn:

1 – The updated amended Crown Court Fee Guidance document – April 2023 – in particular the payments for advocates when dealing with pre-recorded cross-examination/re-examination hearings – February 2023 and beyond

2 – The very latest Criminal Practice Directions just published by the Lord Chief Justice – these Directions, as you know, supplement and add to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 (as amended)

3 – The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme which has been put on a statutory footing as a result of the most recent Statutory Instrument concerning the Domestic Abuse Act 2021