Criminal Case Management and Disclosure
Magistrates' directions, PTPH, prosecution and defence disclosure, unused material, trial preparation and professional duties.
How to study for FLK2
Use closed-book rule anchors, realistic client facts, primary-classification ranges and an ethical decision check across every subject.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Apply magistrates' court case-management directions and Crown Court Plea and Trial Preparation Hearing requirements.
Exam cue: Create a disclosure timeline with material, test, decision and review.
Concept 2
Identify prosecution initial and continuing disclosure duties for unused material.
Exam cue: Separate prosecution unused material from the defence case and privileged instructions.
Concept 3
Apply defence statement and defence disclosure consequences while protecting privilege and client interests.
Concept 4
Respond to non-compliance through timely issue identification, application, record and ethical escalation.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Assuming the prosecution must disclose every unused item.
Guardrail: Check the sitting-specific law cutoff, keep Solicitors Accounts in its official context and reject any answer that imports an FLK1 rule as the controlling subject.
Allowing client instructions to justify misleading the court.
Guardrail: Check the sitting-specific law cutoff, keep Solicitors Accounts in its official context and reject any answer that imports an FLK1 rule as the controlling subject.
Memory anchors
Criminal Case Management and Disclosure: scope
Magistrates' directions, PTPH, prosecution and defence disclosure, unused material, trial preparation and professional duties.
Criminal Case Management and Disclosure: focus 1
Apply magistrates' court case-management directions and Crown Court Plea and Trial Preparation Hearing requirements.
Criminal Case Management and Disclosure: focus 2
Identify prosecution initial and continuing disclosure duties for unused material.
Criminal Case Management and Disclosure: focus 3
Apply defence statement and defence disclosure consequences while protecting privilege and client interests.
Criminal Case Management and Disclosure: focus 4
Respond to non-compliance through timely issue identification, application, record and ethical escalation.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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