‘Every reasonable step': a more flexible approach to vulnerable witnesses and defendants’, Lexicon Limited (2017)

Lexicon Limited, Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson, October 2017 A consolidated list of intermediary examples.

Criminal Procedure Rule 3.9(3)(b) requires courts to take ‘every reasonable step’ to facilitate participation of witnesses and defendants. Intermediaries have used this rule to recommend adaptations tailored to the needs of children and vulnerable adults. 

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The Intermediary role