There is a restriction on the withdrawal of a solicitor from the case where he has accepted instruction to appear on court for a client who is in custody.\u00a0 The solicitor cannot do so without obtaining permission of court before which the client is next scheduled to appear.<\/p>\n
Where a solicitor acquires to have a consultation with the prisoner in custody in cells \u00a0within the courthouse or in the immediate vicinity of the court, the solicitor should inform the court and seek to have the accused\u2019s \u00a0case put back \u00a0to enable the consultation to take place.<\/p>\n\n
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Prosecutor The responsibilities of the advocate acting for the prosecution differ from those acting for the defence.\u00a0 He must see that every material point is made which supports the prosecution’s case or weakens the defendant\u2019s case. He should present the case against the accused relentlessly but with scrupulous fairness.\u00a0 The names of all witnesses and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29606"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30035,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29606\/revisions\/30035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}