Silence and safety: The impact of human rights law

This article examines the significance for English law of recent Strasbourg cases in relation to adverse inferences from pre-trial silence and the test for determining appeals against conviction. The article also assesses the impact on these areas of the Human Rights Act 1998. © Sweet and Maxwell.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jennings, A, Ashworth, A, Emmerson, B
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2000