Criminal Procedure Amendment Rules 2012 (WA)
19 June 2012 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2647 JUSTICE
JU301*
Criminal Procedure Act 2004
Criminal Procedure Amendment Rules 2012
Made by the Judges of the Supreme Court.
1. Citation
These rules are the Criminal Procedure Amendment Rules 2012.
2. Commencement
These rules come into operation as follows —
(a) rules 1 and 2 — on the day on which these rules are published in the Gazette; (b) the rest of the rules — on the day after that day. 3. Rules amended
These rules amend the Criminal Procedure Rules 2005.
4. Rule 56 deleted
Delete rule 56.
5. Schedule 1 Form 17 deleted
Delete Schedule 1 Form 17.
6. Schedule 1 Form 18 replaced
Delete Schedule 1 Form 18 and insert:
18. DPP lawyer’s undertaking as to jury panels or pools (r. 57(3))
Juries Act 1957 DPP lawyer’s undertaking as to Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 jury panels or pools Lawyer’s Full name details Title Office Telephone
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Undertaking I am a lawyer employed in the office of the Director of Public [*delete one] Prosecutions of the *State/Commonwealth. I undertake to the Supreme Court that if I obtain a copy of any
panel or pool of jurors referred to in the Juries Act 1957
section 30 —
(a)
I will not permit the copy to be copied by any person by any means; and
(b)
I will not permit the contents of the panel or pool or the identity of any person in it who is sworn as a juror to be divulged to any person other than the Director of Public Prosecutions or any lawyer instructed by the Director to appear in the trial for which the panel or pool of jurors
has been summoned; and
(c) I will not permit the copy to leave my custody except to facilitate safe keeping by the proper officer in relation to the trial when empanelment of a jury has not been completed; and
(d)
I will return the copy to the office of the summoning officer as soon as practicable after the jury for the trial concerned is empanelled or, if later, by 5 p.m. on the day I receive the copy.
Lawyer’s signature Date 7. Schedule 1 Form 19 replaced
Delete Schedule 1 Form 19 and insert:
19. Defence lawyer’s undertaking as to jury panels or pools (r. 57(4))
Juries Act 1957 Defence lawyer’s undertaking as Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 to jury panels or pools Lawyer’s Full name details Title Office Telephone Undertaking I undertake to the Supreme Court that if I obtain a copy of any
panel or pool of jurors referred to in the Juries Act 1957
section 30 —
(a)
I will not permit the copy to be copied by any person by any means; and
19 June 2012 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2649
(b)
I will not permit the contents of the panel or pool or the identity of any person in it who is sworn as a juror to be divulged to any person other than the accused for whom I act, or a lawyer acting as solicitor or counsel for an accused for whom I act; and
(c)
I will not permit the copy to leave my custody except to facilitate safe keeping by the proper officer in relation to the trial when empanelment of a jury has not been completed; and
(d)
I will return the copy to the office of the summoning officer as soon as practicable after the jury for the trial concerned is empanelled or, if later, by 5 p.m. on the day I receive the copy.
Lawyer’s signature
Date
Judges’ signatures: Chief Justice MARTIN Justice McLURE Justice MARTIN Justice PULLIN Justice MURPHY Justice HEENAN Justice HALL Justice Le MIERE Justice MAZZA Justice JENKINS Justice CORBOY Justice SIMMONDS Justice PRITCHARD Justice BUSS Justice ALLANSON Justice BEECH Justice EDELMAN Justice NEWNES
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