Difference between revisions of "I've Been Charged with a Criminal (or Youth) Offence out-of-Town and Want to Move the Case Closer to Home"

==First steps==

# If you then decide to plead guilty and you want to do so in a different courthouse, you need to fill in a ''waiver form''. You can get a [http://www.ag.gov.bc.ca/courts/forms/pcr/pcr301.pdf Request for Waiver form] online or from a [[Courts of BC|court registry]]. You can find the address and <span class="noglossary">contact</span> information for a court registry through Service BC. You do not need to fill in the date of your court attendance at the new location. Crown Counsel <span class="noglossary">will</span> do that. Mail, fax or deliver the waiver form to the Crown Counsel office in charge of the area where the offence took place (the ''originating'' office).

# Make sure you attend any scheduled court appearances, either at the originating location or at the location where you are waiving the charges to. Note that you can have an ''agent'' attend for you if you have been charged with a summary offence or you have a lawyer who has filed the necessary form, called a [http://www.ag.gov.bc.ca/courts/forms/pcr800/pcr860.pdf Counsel Designation Notice] but you must attend the sentencing hearing in person. A designated counsel cannot do this for you.