Barbados

The Constitution of Barbados

CHAPTER III
PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL

18. Provisions to secure protection of law.

(2) Every person who is charged with a criminal offence —

and, except with his consent, the trial shall not take place in his absence unless he so conducts himself as to render the proceedings in his presence impracticable and the court has ordered the trial to proceed in his absence.

Keywords

Trials in absentia
Rights during trial - present at trial
Disruption of trial - removal of the accused



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