Courts.. Consultation
■■ Some defendants in different cases do not have money and cannot afford to hire a lawyer to defend them. What are the conditions for the court to appoint lawyers for them?
(MS) - Dubai
First of all, we make it clear that every person accused of a felony has the right to have a lawyer to defend him, as this is one of the guarantees guaranteed by law.
The principle is that the accused has the right to choose the lawyer who represents him and defends him, so no lawyer is assigned to any accused, unless he has not appointed one of them, in specific crimes stipulated in Article (4) of the Federal Criminal Procedure Law No. (35) of 1992 And its amendments, which stipulate that “every accused of a felony punishable by death or life imprisonment must have a lawyer to defend him at the trial stage.
The accused in a felony punishable by temporary imprisonment may ask the court to assign a lawyer to defend him, if it ascertains his financial inability to appoint a lawyer to defend him, and if the delegated lawyer has excuses or impediments he wants to adhere to, he must present them without delay to the president of the court Felonies, and if the court accepts the excuses, it will assign another lawyer to defend the accused.
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