CHAPTER 2
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES
PART I Fundamental Rights
5.FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
(2) Protection of the law shall include the following
(a) everyone charged with an offence shall have a fair hearing, within a reasonable time, by an independent and impartial court and be afforded a lawyer if it is a serious offence;
(b) everyone is presumed innocent until a court establishes his guilt according to law;
(c) everyone charged shall be informed promptly in a language he understands of the offence with which he is begin charged;
(d) if an accused does not understand the language to be used in the proceedings he shall be provided with an interpreter throughout the proceedings;
(e) a person shall not be tried in his absence without his consent unless he makes it impossible for the court to proceed in his presence;
(f) no-one shall be convicted in respect of an act of omission which did not constitute an offence known to written or custom law at the time it was committed;
(g) no-one shall be punished with a greater penalty than that which exists at the time of the commission of the offence;
(h) no person who has been pardoned, or tried an convicted or acquitted, shall be tried again for the same offence or any other offence of which he could have been convicted at his trial.
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