[2007] EWCA Crim 14

A decision taken by a solicitor, instructed to act for a defendant in criminal proceedings, to withdraw from the proceedings was not unreasonable where his client had informed him that he was not going to attend the trial and the solicitor did not know whether his client had wished representation to continue. It could not be inferred that the client, having decided deliberately to absent himself from the trial, nevertheless wished to be represented in his absence.

CA (Crim Div) (Pill LJ, Rafferty J, Judge Griffith Williams QC (Recorder of Cardiff))

26/01/2007