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provides that the informant must serve on the accused a hand-up brief complying with clause 110 (Contents of hand-up brief). However, the informant is not required to serve this brief if a plea brief has been served under clause 116 and the accused pleads guilty. Subclause (3) obliges the prosecution to serve a list of prior convictions on the accused, or a statement that the accused has no prior convictions, at the same time as the hand-up brief is served. It is appropriate that the issue of prior convictions be dealt with differently than it is in summary proceedings. In summary proceedings, prior convictions form part of the preliminary brief and the full brief as the brief discloses the prosecution case to the accused. It is inappropriate to include prior convictions of the accused in a hand-up brief because the hand-up brief must be filed with the registrar and a magistrate will then have access to that material (see clause 109).