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Due process

Legal Profession (Code Of Conduct) Rules, r. 26 · Revised Edition 2020

It is the right and duty of an attorney to undertake the defence of a person accused of crime regardless of his own personal opinion as to the guilt of the accused and having undertaken such defence he is bound by all fair and honourable means to present every appropriate defence that the law of the land permits, so that no person may be deprived of life or liberty except by due process of the law.
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