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R (on the application of S) V WALTHAM FOREST YOUTH COURT & (1) CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE (2) SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2004)

PUBLISHED March 31, 2004
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[2004] EWHC 715 (Admin)

There was no inherent jurisdiction or power under the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 enabling a court to make a special measures direction allowing a defendant who was a child to give evidence by live video link, where she was too scared testify in the physical presence of her co-defendants.

DC (Eady J, Laws LJ)

31/03/2004

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