S.L. 260.3 Art. 54Further facilities in connection with legal proceedings.

(1) A prisoner who is a party to any legal or judicial proceedings may correspond with his legal adviser in connection with those proceedings and, unless the Director has reason to suspect that any such correspondence contains matter not relating to the proceedings, the said correspondence shall not be read or stopped under regulation 51(1).

(2) A prisoner shall on request be provided with writing material for the purposes of the foregoing sub-regulation and of sub-regulation (4).

(3) A registered medical practitioner selected by or on behalf of such prisoner in connection with such proceedings shall be afforded reasonable facilities for examining him, and may do so out of hearing but in the sight of a prison officer including the Medical Officer.

(4) A prisoner may correspond with an advocate or legal procurator for the purpose of obtaining legal advice on matters other than those referred to in sub-regulation (1).