PART 2
SPECIFIC RULES
TITLE 1
PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
144. Provision to secure protection of the law.
(2) It shall be the duty of a court to ascertain the truth in every case provided that every person who is charged with a criminal offense ––
and, except with his 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 or he fails without reasonable excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on him) to attend court.
Trials in absentia
Rights during trial - present at trial
Disruption of trial - removal of the accused
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