1973 Ed.]
Legal Aid in Criminal Cases Rules
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(2) In these rules-
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(a) references to counsel or solicitor shall be read as including references to the Director if, under rule 14, he is represent- ing an accused person or appellant; and
(b) a reference to a form by number shall be read as a reference
to the form so numbered in the First Schedule.
3. (1) The Director shall prepare and maintain separate panels of counsel and solicitors willing to act for aided persons-
(a) in appeals in the Full Court Appeal
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(b) in trials in the Supreme Court;
(c) in appeals in the Supreme Court; or
(d) in trials in the District Court.
(2) Unless the Director otherwise directs, a counsel or solicitor whose name is for the time being entered in any panel under this rule shall also act for an aided person-
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(a) in any proceedings before the Full Court/on appeal from a trial in the Supreme Court or the District Court in which he has acted;
(b) in any proceedings before any court to which the pro- ceedings are referred by the court in which he has acted; and
(c) in any retrial ordered by the court in which he has acted. (3) The Director shall enter in the appropriate panel any limitation as to the number per annum and as to the type of proceedings in which a counsel or solicitor is prepared to act for aided persons and shall give effect to such limitation.
(4) Any counsel or solicitor shall be entitled to have his name included on all or any of the panels, unless the Director is satisfied that there is good reason for excluding him by reason of his conduct when acting or assigned to act for persons receiving legal aid or of his professional conduct generally.
(5) The Director shall not include the name of a counsel or solicitor on any panel unless he is satisfied that such counsel or solicitor has a practising certificate, and shall remove from the panels the name of any counsel or solicitor who does not have a practising certificate.
(6) For the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that where a solicitor is assigned to an aided person for the purpose of any proceedings, any other solicitor in the same firm as the solicitor assigned may act for such person therein.
(7) Subject to paragraph (8), a counsel or solicitor assigned to act for an aided person shall not discontinue his aid without the leave of the Director.
(8) Nothing in this rule shall prejudice the right of counsel or solicitor to refuse, or to give up, a case on reasonable grounds.
First Schedule.
Panels of counsel and solicitors.
L.N. 70/73.
L.N. 70/73.