10Right of appearance

#### 10 Right of appearance (1) Subject to this section, a party to a proceeding in the High Court under this Act may appear personally or be represented by a person: (a) who is entitled to practise in any federal court as a barrister or solicitor, or as both, in pursuance of section 55A of the Judiciary Act 1903; (b) whose name is on the Register of Practitioners kept in accordance with section 55C of the Judiciary Act 1903; or (c) who is enrolled as a barrister and solicitor (whether he or she is entitled to practise generally or only in respect of specified causes or matters) under the law of the Republic of Nauru relating to legal practitioners. (2) A party to an appeal in a criminal case who has been sentenced to imprisonment in the proceeding to which the appeal relates or in any other proceeding before a court of the Republic of Nauru, and has not served the sentence or so much of the sentence as he or she is required to serve under the law of the Republic of Nauru, is not entitled to appear personally at the hearing of the appeal. (3) The High Court may hear and determine appeals and applications for leave to appeal notwithstanding that a party to the appeal or the applicant for leave to appeal, as the case may be, is not present in person and is not represented at the hearing of the appeal or application.