Part I Fundamental rights and duties
Section I General principles

Article 20 Access to Law and the Courts

(2) Subject to the terms of the law, everyone shall possess the right to legal information and advice, to legal counsel and to be accompanied by a lawyer before any authority.

Part I Fundamental rights and duties
Section II Rights, Freedoms, and Safeguards
Chapter I Personal Rights, Freedoms, and Safeguards

Article 32 Safeguards in Criminal Proceedings

(3) Defendants shall possess the right to choose counsel and to be assisted by him in relation to every procedural act. The law shall specify those cases and phases of proceedings in which the assistance of a lawyer shall be mandatory.

Part II
Extradition

CHAPTER I
Extradition from Portugal

Section II
Extradition procedure


Article 53
Appearance of the person claimed

3. The judge rapporteur shall hear the person after having appointed a legal counsel for that person if the
latter has not done it himself.

4. The person shall be personally summoned to the hearing and informed of his right to be assisted by both a legal counsel and an interpreter.

Part II
Extradition

CHAPTER I
Extradition from Portugal

Section II
Extradition procedure


Article 54
Hearing of the person claimed

1. In the presence of the public prosecutor and the legal counsel of the person claimed, and if necessary with the assistance of an interpreter, the judge rapporteur shall proceed to the identification of the person and shall inform him of his right to object to his extradition, of his right to consent to his extradition, of the possibility opened to him to relinquish the benefits of the rule of speciality in accordance with the applicable treaty law.

Part II
Extradition

CHAPTER I
Extradition from Portugal

Section II
Extradition procedure

Article 53
Appearance of the person claimed

3. The judge rapporteur shall hear the person after having appointed a legal counsel for that person if the latter has not done it himself.

4. The person shall be personally summoned to the hearing and informed of his right to be assisted by both a legal counsel and an interpreter.

Part II
Extradition

CHAPTER I
Extradition from Portugal

Section II
Extradition procedure

Article 54
Hearing of the person claimed

1. In the presence of the public prosecutor and the legal counsel of the person claimed, and if necessary with the assistance of an interpreter, the judge rapporteur shall proceed to the identification of the person and shall inform him of his right to object to his extradition, of his right to consent to his extradition, of the possibility opened to him to relinquish the benefits of the rule of speciality in accordance with the applicable treaty law.

Part III
Transfer of criminal proceedings

CHAPTER I
Delegation of competence in criminal proceedings in favour of the Portuguese judicial authorities

Article 83
Procedure

3. If the person does not appear in court, the court shall make sure that the summons were legally carried out and, if the person is not represented by a counsel or, if represented, the counsel did not appear either, shall appoint a counsel; every such step shall be recorded in writing.