Clause 46 - Power to transfer criminal cases

Part of Courts Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 1 July 2003.

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Photo of David Kidney David Kidney Labour, Stafford 12:00, 1 July 2003

May I remind the hon. Gentleman that when he and I served on the Standing Committee on the Criminal Justice Bill—which has not yet completed its passage through Parliament—there was a new possibility of magistrates making binding directions ahead of the trial? I presume that if that is enacted in that form, those will become binding, even if the case is transferred somewhere else.