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Ian, it is an automatic entitlement.

Article 6, ECHR:

Everyone charged with a criminal offence has the following
minimum rights:

to defend himself in person or through legal assistance of
his own choosing or, if he has not sufficient means to pay
for legal assistance, to be given it free when the interests
of justice so require

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