New Clause 3
Fraud (Trials Without a Jury) Bill
6:30 pm
Mike O'Brien (Solicitor General, Law Officers' Department; North Warwickshire, Labour)
If the right hon. and learned Gentleman looks at section 45 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, he will find that subsection (2) provides that
“An application to which this section applies must be determined at a preparatory hearing”—
therefore an oral hearing—
“(within the meaning of the 1987 Act or Part 3 of the 1996 Act).”
Subsection (3) states:
“The parties to a preparatory hearing at which an application to which this section applies is to be determined must be given an opportunity to make representations with respect to the application.”
I hope that that deals with the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s points, and that he will be able to withdraw the motion.