Nonappearance at Pre-trial Conference

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1. Under Rule118 Section3, whose unexplained nonappearance is expressly addressed for sanctions?
2. Does Section3 require consideration of an acceptable excuse?
3. Under the continuous-trial Guidelines, can pre-trial proceed despite absence of an accused or private complainant who w…
4. Defense counsel misses criminal pre-trial and supplies no acceptable excuse. Must the court automatically acquit the ac…
5. The accused is absent but duly notified; defense counsel and the prosecutor attend. The prosecution asks to declare eve…
6. A prosecutor is absent from pre-trial and later provides substantiated facts for the court to evaluate as an excuse. Th…
7. Both lawyers are absent, but the judge cites the continuous-trial permission for an absent accused and proceeds as thou…
8. Compare the nonappearance of counsel with the absence of a duly notified accused when both lawyers attend.
9. Why does Rule118 Section3 not authorize automatic merits judgment for every failure to attend?
10. Explain why conducting pre-trial in the accused’s permitted absence does not dispense with signature safeguards.
11. The continuous-trial rule permits pre-trial despite an accused’s absence under stated conditions. Does that also author…
12. Under Part III, item 8(b), is notice of arraignment and pre-trial limited to defense counsel alone?