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24. The right of access to a lawyer should also include the right to have the lawyer
present during any questioning conducted by the police and the lawyer should be
able to intervene in the course of the questioning. Naturally, this should not prevent
the police from immediately starting to question a detained person who has
exercised his right of access to a lawyer, even before the lawyer arrives, if this is
warranted by the extreme urgency of the matter in hand; nor should it rule out the
replacement of a lawyer who impedes the proper conduct of an interrogation. That
said, if such situations arise, the police should subsequently be accountable for their
action.
25. Finally, in order for the right of access to a lawyer during police custody to be
fully effective in practice, appropriate provision should be made already at this early
stage of the criminal procedure for persons who are not in a position to pay for a
lawyer.
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