CHAPTER THREE
Procedure
PART VI
INDICTABLE TRIALS
SUB-PART A
THE TRIAL
Reply for the Prosecution
Defence by counsel and caution to undefended accused
916.— (1) Any person charged with an indictable offence may make his or her full defence by counsel.
(2) Where an accused person is not defended by counsel, then, on the completion of the examination of the witnesses on the part of the prosecution, the Judge shall inform him or her, or cause him or her to be informed, of his or her right to address the jury and to give evidence on his or her own behalf or to remain silent, and also of his or her right to call witnesses in his or her defence.
Opening of case and examining witnesses for defence
917. At every trial for an indictable offence, the accused or his or her counsel shall be entitled to open his or her case, and after the conclusion of such opening, the accused or his or her counsel shall be entitled to examine such witnesses as he or she thinks fit, and when all the evidence is concluded, to sum up the evidence by way of an address to the jury.
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