Criminal (Case Management) Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2002 (TAS)

Criminal (Case Management) Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2002

We, the Honourable WILLIAM JOHN ELLIS COX, Companion of the Order of Australia, Chief Justice, and the Honourable PETER GEORGE UNDERWOOD, Officer of the Order of Australia, the Honourable EWAN CHARLES CRAWFORD, the Honourable PIERRE WILLIAM SLICER, the Honourable PETER ETHRINGTON EVANS and the Honourable ALAN MICHAEL BLOW, holder of the Medal of the Order of Australia, Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, make the following Rules of Court under the Criminal Code Act 1924 .

1Short titleThese Rules of Court may be cited as the Criminal (Case Management) Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2002 . 2CommencementThese Rules of Court take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette. 3Principal RulesIn these Rules of Court, the Criminal (Case Management) Rules 2001 are referred to as the Principal Rules. 4Rule 12A insertedBefore rule 13 of the Principal Rules , the following rule is inserted in Part 4: 12AOrder that status conference be held (1)  A Crown counsel or the accused person may apply to a judge for an order that a status conference be held. (2)  After hearing the application, the judge may order that a status conference be held – (a) on a day and at a time specified in the order; and (b) before a specified judge. (3)  A judge may order that a status conference be held without an application being made.

W. J. E. Cox

Chief Justice

P. G. Underwood

Puisne Judge

E. C. Crawford

Puisne Judge

P. W. Slicer

Puisne Judge

P. E. Evans

Puisne Judge

A. M. Blow

Puisne Judge

Countersigned,

I. G. Ritchard

Registrar

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 20 November 2002

These Rules of Court are administered in the Department of Justice and Industrial Relations.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the rule) These Rules of Court amend the