This article considers the recent case of Cadder v HM Advocate in which the UK Supreme Court found that the failure of Scots law to recognise a right to legal advice for suspects prior to police questioning was contrary to art. 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The author suggests that repercussions from Cadder will ultimately prove to be detrimental to suspects and accused persons, and that the case could have been decided differently had greater attention been paid to the rationale which lies behind the provision of legal assistance during police questioning, namely the right not to be compelled to self-incriminate
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This article considers the recent case of Cadder v HM Advocate in which the UK Supreme Court found t...
The case of Cadder v HM Advocate in 2010 had an instant and seismic effect on Scottish criminal lega...
The European Convention on Human Rights 1950 represented a radical endeavour to create a set of pan-...
In 2010 in Cadder v HM Advocate the Supreme Court held that Article 6 of the European Convention on ...
This article reports on the so-called "sons of "Cadder" cases in which the UK Supreme Court has shed...
The importance of the right to legal assistance for suspects detained for police questioning, as par...
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This article revisits the controversial question of whether evidence found in breach of fundamental ...
The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Salduz v Turkey led to considerable re...
In response to problems encountered in the administration of justice in Northern Ireland, the Britis...
This article considers the recent case of Cadder v HM Advocate in which the UK Supreme Court found t...
The case of Cadder v HM Advocate in 2010 had an instant and seismic effect on Scottish criminal lega...
The European Convention on Human Rights 1950 represented a radical endeavour to create a set of pan-...
In 2010 in Cadder v HM Advocate the Supreme Court held that Article 6 of the European Convention on ...
This article reports on the so-called "sons of "Cadder" cases in which the UK Supreme Court has shed...
The importance of the right to legal assistance for suspects detained for police questioning, as par...
Copyright @ 2013 Sweet & MaxwellThis article contrasts the Scottish reform of custodial legal assist...
This article examines the responses of national courts to the ECtHR's decision in Salduz v Turkey th...
Few would have predicted that the issue of a ‘UK without Convention Rights’ would be seriously debat...
It is common when litigating in Scotland to arrest on the dependence. It remains a central plank of ...
This article discusses, with reference to leading case law developments such as the Queen's Bench Di...
The Lockerbie case has already contributed significantly to the jurisprudence of the law of evidence...
This article revisits the controversial question of whether evidence found in breach of fundamental ...
The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Salduz v Turkey led to considerable re...
In response to problems encountered in the administration of justice in Northern Ireland, the Britis...