The Magistrates’ Courts (Injunctions: Anti-Social Behaviour) Rules 2015

These Rules make provision for proceedings in youth courts in relation to applications for injunctions to prevent ant-social behaviour, under Part 1 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. Under Part 1 of the 2014 Act, such proceedings are allocated to the High Court or county court where the respondent is aged 18 or over and to youth courts where the respondent is aged under 18, but with the possibility, for which these Rules provide, for a youth court to hear an application (or applications) involving a respondent aged 18 or over together with an application (or applications) involving a respondent aged under 18 if it is in the interests of justice for the applications to be heard together.