Diversion

[Mitchyy]

Greatly appreciate your opinion and experience if you can assist me please.

The informant and the prosecution recommended last Friday a diversion for my first problem with the law. I admitted my fault and accepted the full responsibility (assault charges). Now I am waiting for the next step.
My concerns:
1. Are there big chances the magistrate will abuse the prosecution’s recommendation and not order the Diversion?
2. Would it be an online Diversion hearing, because of Covid? Can I ask the court to speed up my case if I want to travel overseas?

Thanks again for reading

 

[Mitchyy]

My apologies for the mistake: Appose not abuse..

 

[Tony Danos]

You can apply to have the diversion heard on the papers which means sooner.
Unlikely a Magistrate will refuse but it does happen.

 

[Graham.B]

Thanks Sir for the replay. Really appreciated.
can the “on the paper hearing” still online? Can the defendant choose to be online for health reason?

 

[Tony Danos]

You can request a diversion on the papers which is generally the only way to finalise a Diversion.