Provided that the court or other authority may, to such extent as it
may consider necessary or expedient in circumstances where
publicity would prejudice the interests of justice or interlocutory
civil proceedings, or to such extent as it may be empowered or
required by law to do so in the interest of defense, public safety,
public order, public morality, the welfare of persons under the age
of eighteen years or the protection of the private lives of persons
concerned in the proceedings, exclude from its proceedings
persons other than the parties thereto and their legal
representatives.
(3)
Every person who is charged with a criminal offence(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
shall be presumed innocent until he or she is proved or has
pleaded guilty;
shall be informed at the time he or she is charged, in a
language which he or she understands and in detail, of the
nature of the offence charged;
shall be given adequate time and facilities for the
preparation of his or her defense;
shall be permitted to defend himself or herself before the
court in person or, at his or her own expense, by a legal
representative of his or her own choice;
Provided that where a person is charged with an offence which
carries a punishment of death or imprisonment for life, that person
shall be entitled to legal aid at the expense of the State.
(e)
(f)
(4)
shall be afforded facilities to examine in person or by his or
her legal representative the witnesses called by the
prosecution before the court and to obtain the attendance
and carry out the examination of witnesses to testify on his
or her behalf before the court on the same conditions as
those applying to witnesses called by the prosecution; and
shall be permitted to have without payment the assistance
of an interpreter if he or she cannot understand the
language used at the trial of the charge; and, except with his
or her own consent, the trial shall not take place in his or
her absent unless he or she so conducts himself or herself
has to render the continuance of the proceedings in his or
her presence impractical and the court has ordered him or
her to be removed and the trial to proceed in his or her
absence .
When a person is tried for any criminal offence, the
accused person or any person authorised by him or her in
that behalf shall, if he or she requires and subject to the
payment of such reasonable fee as may be prescribed by
law, be given within a reasonable time, and in any event
within thirty days after the end of the trial, a copy for the