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Criminal Procedure Rule Committee

These rules govern the way criminal cases are managed and the Committee's goal is to simplify and streamline them.

We provide a secretariat to the Committee to administer its business. Engaging with partners across the criminal justice system, we help the Committee deliver the reform agenda, ensuring that proposals are practicable and that effective consultation takes place before new rules are made. We arrange recruitment of Committee members and maintain the Committee's Freedom of Information Publication Scheme and Code of Practice.

Membership of the committee

The Committee is chaired by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Judge and the deputy chairman is Lord Justice Hooper.

Member	Capacity	Term of Office ends on, or is to be reviewed by:
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Hooper	A Court of Appeal judge	31 August 2011
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Thomas	A Court of Appeal judge	31 August 2012
Mr Justice Openshaw Reappointed August 2009	A High Court judge	31 August 2013
To be confirmed	A person nominated by the Lord Chancellor
His Honour Judge Charles Wide, QC Reappointed August 2008	Circuit judge	31 August 2012
His Honour Judge Roderick Denyer, QC Reappointed August 2007	Circuit judge	31 August 2011
District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) Stephen Dawson	A District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)	31 August 2011
Nicholas Moss	A magistrate (lay justice)	31 August 2011
Tessa Szagun	A Justices' Clerk	31 August 2012
Keir Starmer, QC	Director of Public Prosecutions	ex officio
Patrick Gibbs, QC	A barrister with a Supreme Court qualification and with particular experience of practice in criminal courts	31 August 2012
Tom Little Re-appointed 2007	A barrister similarly qualified and experienced	31 August 2011
Michael Caplan, QC	A solicitor with the right to conduct litigation in relation to all proceedings in the Supreme Court and with particular experience in criminal courts	31 August 2012
Derek French Reappointed 2007	A solicitor similarly qualified and experienced	31 August 2011
Jim Barker-McCardle, QPM	Essex Constabulary A representative of the Association of Chief Police Officers	31 August 2012
James Riches Reappointed 2008	From the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (Nacro) A person to represent voluntary organisations with a direct interest in the work of the criminal courts	31 August 2012
Jeremy Corbett, CBE	From Victim Support A person to represent voluntary organisations with a direct interest in the work of the criminal courts	31 August 2012