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CHAPTER 24
SESSIONS CASES

PART C -- PROVIDING AN ACCUSED PERSON WITH LEGAL ADVICE

*[1. Presiding Officer to report whether accused can afford to engage counsel.- If the accused is unrepresented in a Sessions case and cannot afford to engage a counsel, the Sessions Judge shall make arrangement to employ a counsel at Government expense. Counsel in such cases should be appointed well in time to enable him to study the documents mentioned in section 265-C of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

2. Counsel for accused to be provided by Sessions Judge.- When the accused is a woman prisoner who is unable to afford a counsel, the presiding officer on an application made by her shall make arrangement to employ a counsel at Government expense to defend her in all offences except those triable in a summary way under chapter XXII of the Code of Criminal Procedure.]

3. Fees of Counsel.-- The legal practitioner thus engaged by the Court trying the case shall receive the same fees as private practitioners engaged under the note to rule X (2) of the rules regulating the conduct of business in the Law Department, and the fees shall be entered in the same register and drawn in the same manner as is prescribed for such practitioners.

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