The appropriate judge may rescind a live link direction at any time before or during a hearing to which it relates.
The appropriate judge must not give a live link direction or rescind such a direction unless the parties to the proceedings have been given the opportunity to make representations.
If a hearing takes place in relation to the giving or rescinding of a live link direction, the appropriate judge may require or permit any party to the proceedings who wishes to make representations to do so through a live link.
If in a case where an appropriate judge has power to give a live link direction but decides not to do so, the appropriate judge must—
Subsection (7) applies if—
A hearing is a qualifying hearing—
The requirement in section 4(3), 72(3) , 74(3) or 74A(3) (as the case requires) to bring the person as soon as practicable before the appropriate judge is to be read as a requirement to bring the person before that judge as soon as practicable after the application is refused or the direction is rescinded.