Appeal by offender—striking out appeal if appellant expresses a wish to abandon it during preliminary hearing
2A.7B Appeal by offender—striking out appeal if appellant expresses a wish to abandon it during preliminary hearing
If, at a preliminary hearing before the Court constituted by a judicial registrar in an appeal under section 254 of the Act, the appellant expresses a wish to abandon the appeal—
the power of the Court to strike out the appeal is delegated to the judicial registrar so that the appeal may be abandoned with the leave of the Court; and
the judicial registrar may constitute the Court for the purpose of granting that leave and exercising that power.
A reference in paragraph (1) to abandoning an appeal or striking out an appeal includes, where the appeal is against conviction and sentence, doing so only in relation to conviction so that an appeal against sentence alone may be pursued.
Rule 2A.7C inserted by S.R. No. 16/2023 rule 8.
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