Mode of conducting case

(1) The Director of Public Prosecutions or Solicitor General or a Crown Counsel may appear at a preliminary inquiry into a crime in every case. (2) Every prosecutor and every accused person may conduct his case on the preliminary inquiry before a magistrate in person, or by an attorney-at-law, and every accused person may conduct his case in the court in person or by an attorney-at-law. (3) If a prosecutor or an accused person is in custody, his attorney shall be entitled to have access to him for the purposes of the prosecution or of the defence, as the case may be, subject to any restrictions and conditions imposed by the regulations of the prison in which he is confined.