Rights during investigation - legal assistance

Slovakia

Constitution of Slovakia

Chapter Two – Fundamental Rights and Freedoms

Part Seven: The Right to Judicial and Other Legal Protection

Article 47

(2) Everyone has the right to legal assistance in court proceedings or proceedings before other state or public administration bodies. He has this right from the very start of the proceedings, under conditions defined by law.

Criminal Procedure Code No. 301/2005 Coll. - Part Five: Legal Relations with Abroad

CHAPTER TWO
EXTRADITION

Division Two

Section 502
Preliminary investigation

(3) During the extradition proceedings the person whose extradition is sought shall be represented by a defence counsel.

CHAPTER TWO
EXTRADITION

Division Two

Section 502
Preliminary investigation

(5) If the person whose extradition is sought was placed in provisional arrest or in custody pending extradition, his contacts with his defence counsel and attorney, the correspondence in custody and visits in custody shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the regulations relating to the enforcement of custody.

Rome Statute

Article 55 Rights of persons during an investigation

2. Where there are grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court and that person is about to be questioned either by the Prosecutor, or by national authorities pursuant to a request made under Part 9, that person shall also have the following rights of which he or she shall be informed prior to being questioned:

(c) To have legal assistance of the person's choosing, or, if the person does not have legal assistance, to have legal assistance assigned to him or her, in any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment by the person in any such case if the person does not have sufficient means to pay for it; and