Section 83:
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
83. Counsel engaged before Assizes in in forma pauperis case—The Magistrate refused the postponement of the hearing applied for by Counsel engaged in the case who had been appointed in forma pauperis to appear in
another case coming before the Assizes on the same date. The appellants
being inops consilii were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
HELD the refusal to grant a postponement in the circumstances was a
wrong exercise of the discretion of the Magistrate and had caused prejudice
to the appellants. The criticism of Counsel’s conduct by the Magistrate was
unjustified. Periag v R (1974).
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