lijk
Under Tause 13, he may order the prosecutor to prepare
a prosecution case statement, which is a concise account of the facts on which the prosecution case is based.
He may also
require the prosecutor to provide copies of witness statements,
documentary exhibits, a list of exhibits and any other
explanatory documents he considers appropriate.
of the Bill,
The judge may order the accused, under Clause 14% to
state any objection he has to the prosecution case statement on the basis that it does not disclose the prosecution case with
sufficient particularity to enable him to present his defence.
The judge may order that the prosecution case statement be amended if it appears to him to be appropriate.
Clause 15 enables the judge to order the accused to
state any objections he has to the admissibility of the proposed
prosecution evidence. The judge can also determine questions of admissibility at this stage.
He may
Where all objections to the prosecution case statement and the evidence have been dealt with, the judge may order the accused, under cause 16, to submit a defence response indicating the facts on which he takes issue with the prosecution.
also order the accused to provide a statement of all the
reasonably forseeable propositions of law on which the defence
may wish to rely and copies of the statements of any expert
witnesses he intends to call.
The removal of the White Bill requirement for a defence
case outline and the substitution of a defence response to the
prosecution case, recognises that the object of identifying those
aspects of the case in issue can be achieved without encroaching
on principle.
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