Saint Lucia

Constitution of Saint Lucia (1979)

CHAPTER I
PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

8.- (2) Every person who is charged with a criminal offence -

f) shall be permitted to have without payment the assistance of an interpreter if he cannot understand the language used at the trial, and except with his own consent the trial shall not take place in his absence unless he so conducts himself as to render the continuance of the proceedings in his presence impracticable and the court has ordered him to be removed and the trial to proceed in his absence :

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Rights during trial - interpretation and translation



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