ABSTRACT
Section 51 (3) deals with linked offences. It provides that where an adult is sent for trial under s 51, the court must also send the accused to the Crown Court for trial for any either-way or summary offence with which he is also charged, so long as that offence is related to the main offence (and in the case of a summary offence is also punishable with imprisonment or involves obligatory or discretionary disqualification from driving: s 51 (11)). For these purposes, an either-way offence is related to an indictable offence if the charge for the either-way offence could be joined in the same indictrnent as the charge for the indictable offence, and a summary offence is related to an indictable offence if it arises out of circumstances, which are the same as or connected with those giving rise to the indictable offence (s 51E(c) and (d)).
