2010 ED] CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES [CAP 167
(i)
shall, except with the person’s own consent, not be
tried in the person’s absence unless the person’s
conduct renders the continuance of the proceedings in
the person’s presence impracticable and the court has
ordered the person to be removed and the trial to
proceed in the person’s absence.
(3) When a person is tried for any offence that person or any
other person authorised by that person in that behalf shall, if either
of them so requires and subject to payment of such reasonable fee
as may be specified by or under any law, be given as soon as is
practicable after judgment a copy for the use of that person of any
record of the proceedings made by or on behalf of the court.
(4) Except for the offence of genocide or an offence against
humanity, a person shall not be held to be guilty of an offence on
account of any act or omission that did not, at the time it took
place, constitute an offence, and a penalty shall not be imposed for
any offence that is more severe in degree or description than the
maximum penalty that might have been imposed for the offence at
the time when it was committed.
(5) A person who shows that the person has been tried by a
competent court for an offence and either convicted or acquitted
shall not be tried again for that offence or for any other offence of
which the person could have been convicted at the trial for that
offence, save upon the order of a superior court in the course of
appeal or review proceedings relating to the conviction or
acquittal.
(6) A person shall not be tried for an offence if the person
shows that the person has been pardoned for that offence in
accordance with an Act made pursuant to article 60(2).
(7) Any court or other authority required or empowered by
law to determine the existence or extent of any civil right or
obligation shall be established by law and shall be independent
and impartial; and where proceedings for such a determination
are instituted by any person before such a court or other authority
the case shall be given a fair hearing within a reasonable time.
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