Section 89: Duties and discretion of Counsel at hearing—A Magistrate granted a
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.
89. Duties and discretion of Counsel at hearing—A Magistrate granted a
postponement to an accused party to allow him to retain Counsel. The accused failed to do so, and the case was fixed for trial. On the day of trial,
the accused produced a letter from Counsel moving for a postponement on
the ground that he was engaged at the Assizes. The Magistrate refused to
postpone, and tried the case.
HELD Counsel had impertinently assumed that the Court was bound to
defer to his convenience, and the Magistrate was right to refuse the postponement. Chuckooree v R (1981).