The Weekly Law Reports
[1985] 3 WLR 84
[COURT OF APPEAL]
FRANK ROBINSON APPELLANT AND THE QUEEN RESPONDENT
[APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF JAMAICA]
1985 March 11,
12;
May 7
May 7
Lord Scarman, Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Roskill and Lord Templeman
Jamaica
— Constitution
— Human rights and fundamental freedoms
— Legal representation
— Murder trial
— Withdrawal of defendant's counsel without leave
— Judge's refusal to adjourn for legal aid assignment
— Defendant unrepresented at trial for capital offence
— Whether infringment of defendant's constitutional right to be permitted legal representation
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Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council 1962 (S.I. 1962 No. 1550), Sch. 2, s. 20(6)(c)