Does the withdrawal of legal counsel from the trial of an accused be reasonably foreseeable?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v Roberts, 2018 BCSC 2300 (CanLII):
The circumstances of this case are different than those in R v. Truong, 2017 BCSC 736, where the accused’s legal counsel withdrew 10 days before the trial. In the circumstances of that case, such actions were not reasonably foreseeable.
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