In civil proceedings for criminal contempt in the Supreme Court, the UCPR applies (not the Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990), but the common-law fitness to plead requirement operates as a safeguard, and a real and substantial question as to fitness to plead at the conviction hearing constitutes a substantial miscarriage of justice going to the root of the proceedings.
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