Summary
Bringing wrongdoers to book, while respecting the rights of suspects and avoiding miscarriages of justice: it is a difficult line to tread. For the past year Lord Carloway, a High Court Judge, has been reviewing the Scottish criminal justice system with the brief of deciding whether it is fit for purpose for the 21st century. His wide-ranging report, published yesterday, recommends how the system can be "re-cast" for modern society.
The review was necessitated by the UK Supreme Court ruling in the case of Peter Cadder that ended the right of the police in Scotland to question a suspect for up to six hours without a solicitor being present. This practice was deemed incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and resulted in the passage of emergency legislation through the Scottish Parliament last year.See the full content of this document
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Jury Still Out On Legal Reforms
The Cadder judgment was widely perceived as tilting the system in favour of the suspect and raised questions about whether corroboration, which...
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