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The Criminal procedure rules of course only apply to the defence .
Every miscarriage of justice in the last 30 years has been founded upon an inability or unwillingness to properly disclose evidence to the defence or alternatively tactically disclose on a drip feed basis until the very point when the cps close a case.
If you have the temerity to raise this as an issue or to seek that the rules apply both ways you are seen as resistant to the MOJ god of progress.
Progressing a case used to be a balancing act between the interests of the state and the individual, it would seem now to be entirely a case of the state .
I have never in 30 years been more depressed at the way in which the respect in which our instituions and the law ii self is being eroded largely as a result of the failure of the state to understand that the law is about people , defendants victims lawyers .
Because of that it is by neccesity messy and dysfunctional and is not simply a case of boxticking.
I recently asked a ct to adjourn a first instance guilty plea for one week to accomodate a holiday i had prebooked and to allow time to obtain a reference from a absent employer.
I was told by way of refusal that statistics are such the ct couldnt accomodate the request .We are clearly more interested in statistics then justice!