Rights during investigation - legal assistance

Barbados

Barbados - Constitution 1966 (2007)

CHAPTER III
PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL

13. Protection of right to personal liberty.

(2) Any person who is arrested or detained shall be permitted, at his own expense, to retain and instruct without delay a legal adviser of his own choice, being a person entitled to practise in Barbados as an attorney-at-law,

Barbados - Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992 EN

First Schedule

Request for Assistance made by Commonwealth Countries

Article 2

(3) Where a request such as is referred to in section 19 is made by a Commonwealth country, the request

(b) shall, where relevant, indicate whether any person, from whom evidence is to be taken, is to be examined

(iii) in the presence of his legal representative;

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