The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981

• (i) the type of hearing,

• (ii) the identity of the court,

• (iii) in general terms, the subject of the proceedings, and

• (iv) whether any reporting or access restriction applies.

Special measures for witnesses

3C

• (1) The court may exercise its power to facilitate the giving of evidence by a witness—

• (a) on application or on the court’s own initiative; and

• (b) as long as the court is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to exercise that power in that way.

• (2) An applicant for the exercise of that power must explain which one or more of the following arrangements the applicant suggests—

• (a) by means of a screen or other arrangement preventing the witness from seeing, or being seen by, another person except—

• (i) any member of the court,

• (ii) any legal representative acting in the proceedings, and

• (iii) any interpreter or other person appointed to assist the witness;

• (b) by means of a device allowing questions and answers to be communicated to or by the witness despite any disability, disorder or other impairment;

• (c) allowing the witness to be accompanied, with directions about seating arrangements for the companion; and

• (d) any other arrangement that the applicant thinks would be desirable to facilitate the giving of evidence by the witness and which the court has power to direct including any special measure that the court can direct by reason of section 49 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.

Duties of justices’ legal advisers

Measures to help a witness to give evidence

Forms and electronic arrangements for use in case management and for other purposes

3D

• (1) This rule applies where an enactment, a rule or the court requires a person to—

• (a) make an application or a complaint, or give a notice;

• (b) supply information for the purposes of case management by the court; or

• (c) supply information needed for other purposes by the court.

• (2) Unless the court otherwise directs, such a person must—

• (a) use such electronic arrangements as the designated officer may make for that purpose, in accordance with those arrangements; or

• (b) if no such arrangements have been made use the appropriate form issued by the Lord Chief Justice, in accordance with any relevant rule and any instructions in the form itself.

Application for order after giving domestic abuse protection notice

Notice of proposed terms of order

Service of order

Representations after application without notice

Application to vary or discharge order

Notice to responsible person of requirement for supervision or monitoring

Exclusion of requirement for notice of hearsay evidence

Documents to be sent on remand for medical inquiry

Transfer of remand hearings

Notice of further remand in certain cases

Appeal or application to be by complaint

Register in civil proceedings

Proof of service

Duty of justices’ legal adviser

81A

• (1) This rule applies in relation to a magistrates’ court, including a youth court, which—

• (a) comprises a lay justice or lay justices; and

• (b) agrees to state a case.

• (2) A justices’ legal adviser must assist the court by—

• (a) preparing and amending the draft case; and

• (b) completing the case stated.

Notice of bail requirement

Sureties for bail

Forfeiture of sureties