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Author Choo, Andrew L.-T., author

Title The privilege against self-incrimination and criminal justice / Andrew L.-T. Choo
Published Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 152 pages)
Series Criminal law library ; v10
Criminal law library (Oxford, England) ; v. 10.
Contents Cover; Preliminary Pages; Preface; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; Table of Conventions; Table of International Treaties; 1 -Introduction: Origins, Rationales and the Relevant Legal Framework; 1. Origins and Rationales; 2. The Relevant Legal Framework; 3. Organisation of the Book; 2 -- The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Response of the Law of England and Wales; 1. Funke v France; 2. Saunders v UK; 3. Prosecutions for Failure to Provide (Accurate) Information; 4. Use of 'Compelled Information'; 5. Concluding Comments; 3 -- What Is 'Information'?
1. The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights2. The Case Law in England and Wales; 3. US Constitutional Law; 4. Australia; 5. New Zealand; 6. Canada; 7. India; 8. International Criminal Law: The ICTY; 9. Concluding Comments; 4 -- Identifying the 'Essence' of the Privilege; 1. An 'Absolute' Right?; 2. The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights; 3. The Case Law in England and Wales; 4. Canada; 5. Concluding Comments; 5 -- 'Indirect' Compulsion: Confessions and Inferences From Silence; 1. Questioning Suspects; 2. Adverse Inferences From Silence; 3. Concluding Comments
6 -- Concluding ThoughtsAppendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Bibliography; Index
Summary "The privilege against self-incrimination is often represented in the case law of England and Wales as a principle of fundamental importance in the law of criminal procedure and evidence. A logical implication of recognising a privilege against self-incrimination should be that a person is not compellable, on pain of a criminal sanction, to provide information that could reasonably lead to, or increase the likelihood of, her or his prosecution for a criminal offence. Yet there are statutory provisions in England and Wales making it a criminal offence not to provide particular information that, if provided, could be used in a subsequent prosecution of the person providing it. This book examines the operation of the privilege against self-incrimination in criminal proceedings in England and Wales, paying particular attention to the influence of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998. Among the questions addressed are how the privilege might be justified, and whether its scope is clarified sufficiently in the relevant case law (does the privilege apply, for example, to pre-existing material?). Consideration is given where appropriate to the treatment of aspects of the privilege in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the USA and elsewhere."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Self-incrimination -- England
Self-incrimination -- Wales
Criminal justice, Administration of -- England
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Wales
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Self-incrimination
Strafrecht.
Zwijgrecht.
England
Wales
Engeland.
Wales.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782253211
1782253211
178225322X
9781782253228
9781474200325
147420032X