In magistrates’ courts usually there will be between one and three magistrates. Some cases may be sent for sentence in the Crown Court even if the defendant is convicted of the crime in a magistrates’ court.
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Serious cases may be sent for trial in the Crown Court. At court, some cases will be dealt with completely at the first hearing, for example if the defendant pleads guilty to the crime. In most cases that will be the Crown Prosecution Service.Īlmost all criminal cases start in a magistrates’ court. The authority responsible for prosecuting the case in court is called the ‘prosecutor’. In the Criminal Procedure Rules anyone accused of a crime is called a ‘defendant’. Sometimes the person is arrested, questioned, formally accused of the crime (‘charged’) and then taken to court, or given a date they must go to court. When someone is accused of a crime, they may be sent a notice (called a ‘summons’ or a ‘requisition’) that tells them to go to court on the date in the notice, or tells them to fill in a form with the notice and send that form to the court. On the Criminal Procedure Rules forms page you can read and download the forms to use with the rules. Read and download the Criminal Practice Directions made by the Lord Chief Justice. Read the rules online and download them in MS Word. There you can read and download the rules in HTML and pdf. The Criminal Procedure Rules are published at. In those rules there are notes that give more detail, including references to the Acts of Parliament and other legislation that applies. On this page there are summaries of what each Part is about and links to the rules in each Part. Each Part of the Criminal Procedure Rules contains rules about parts of that procedure. The Criminal Procedure Rules are rules about criminal court procedure in magistrates’ courts, the Crown Court, the Court of Appeal and, in extradition appeal cases, the High Court.
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