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Legal aid certificate. Schedale.

Solicitor and counsel's fees.

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6. A legal aid certificate granted under these regulations shall be in the form specified in the Schedule and shall be for- warded by the Director of Legal Aid to the accused with a copy to the Registrar of the District Court and to any solicilor or counsel assigned in accordance with these regulations.

7. The fees payable to any solicitor or counsel who is assigned in accordance with these regulations to represent an accused person shall be determined by the Chief Justice.

SCHEDULE,

EMERGENCY (LEGAL AID IN CRIMINAL CASES) (DISTRICT COURT) REGULATIONS 1967.

Lot Alp ČERTIFICATA,

(reg. 6.)

Regina vanumang mga mamb

Whereas it appears to me, on consideration of an application for free legal aid by sad.....................

that it is desirable in the interests of justice that he should have free legal aid in the preparation and conduct of his defence and that his means are insufficient to enable him to obtain for himself such legal aid:

NOW THEREFOka I do hereby grant this legal aid certificate to the

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Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to Indicure their general purport).

The present law provides for the granting of legal aid in respect of criminal cases heard before the Supreme Court.

There are several offences which carry penalties of up to ten years imprisonment and which, in the normal course of events, would begin with committal proceedings before a magistrate and eventual trial in the Sopreme Court, in which case, the accused would be entitled to apply for legal aid.

Under the present circumstances however, it has been considered that the deterreat effect of swift trials has more effect and, as such, jurisdiction has been vested in the District Court to try these particular offences in the first instance without the necessity of formal committal proceedings.

The purpose of these regulations is to extend the granting of legal ald to criminal cases heard before the District Court which provide for penalties of up to ten years imprisonment,

The Director of Legal Aid is the authority who decides whether or not legal aid will be granted under the regulations. It will be his duty also, to assign a solicitor or counsel, who is prepared to act on behalf of the accused, to represent the accused at the trial.

(Secretariat GR 9/3221/491)

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Dated this

day of

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Director of Legal Aid.

The following legal aid has been assigned-

Solicitor

Counsel

Date

SAGOONEKAKELAA

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

29th August 1967.

Director of Legal xtti.

Clerk of Councils.