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  Judicial Review and Courts Bill - Clause 3 - Automatic Online Conviction and Penalty for Certain Summary Offences
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require a prosecutor to be satisfied, having undertaken a physical and mental health assessment, that the accused does not have any vulnerabilities and disabilities that impede their ability to understand or effectively participate in proceedings as a condition of using a process enabling a case to be dealt with online without the involvement of the court or magistrate. 
  
  @ MP voted no not to require a prosecutor to be satisfied, having undertaken a physical and mental health assessment, that the accused does not have any vulnerabilities and disabilities that impede their ability to understand or effectively participate in proceedings as a condition of using a process enabling a case to be dealt with online without the involvement of the court or magistrate. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to require a prosecutor to be satisfied, having undertaken a physical and mental health assessment, that the accused does not have any vulnerabilities and disabilities that impede their ability to understand or effectively participate in proceedings as a condition of using a process enabling a case to be dealt with online without the involvement of the court or magistrate. 
  
  
  MPs were considering the Judicial Review and Courts Bill.[1][2][3]
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 20, page 5, line 34, at end insertâ
  
  :â(e) the prosecutor is satisfied that the accused does not have any vulnerabilities and disabilities that impede the ability of the accused to understand or effectively participate in proceedings, having undertaken a physical and mental health assessment.â
  
  The rejected amendment was accompanied by the following explanatory statement from its proposer:
  
  :This amendment would require that all accused persons considered for automatic online convictions are subject to a health assessment, and that only those who do not have any vulnerabilities or disabilities are given the option of being convicted online.
  
  The rejected amendment would have impacted Clause 3 of the Bill which was titled: ''Automatic online conviction and penalty for certain summary offences'' and provided for certain individuals who plead guilty to be dealt with "online without the involvement of the court [or magistrate]" if the defendant agrees.  The proposed amendment would have added a new condition for determining if a case qualifies for the automatic online process. 
  
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  * [1] [https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3035 Parliament's webpage on the Judicial Review and Courts Bill], Parliament.uk
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0198/210198.pdf Judicial Review and Courts Bill as amended in committee, 23 November 2021], Parliament.uk
  * [3] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0152/en/210152en.pdf Explanatory notes to the Judicial Review and Courts Bill as introduced, 27 July 2021], Parliament.uk
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