R v Director of Serious Fraud Office, ex parte Smith

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtHouse of Lords
Judgment Date11 June 1992
Date11 June 1992

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  • Ireland: Curtailment of the right to silence through statutory adverse inferences
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage New Journal of European Criminal Law No. 12-3, September 2021
    • 1 September 2021
    ...s 35(4).8. Declan McGrath, Evidence (2nd edn, Thomson Round Hall 2014) 847. See also R v Director of Serious Fraud Off‌ice, exparte Smith [1993] AC 1, 32; [1992] 3 All ER 456, 465 (Lord Mustill) and Heaney v Ireland [1996] 1 IR 580, 589; [1997]1 ILRM 117, 126 (O’Flaherty J).9. State (McCart......
  • American Perspectives on Self-Incrimination and the Compelled Production of Evidence
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 6-4, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...of punishment along with the right of the accused not to take the witness stand at trial. Smith v Dfrector ofSertous Fraud Oflce [1992] 3 All ER 456. An American perspective on the right to silence is presented in M. Berger. ‘Rethinking Self- Incrimination in Great Britain’. 61 Den LJ 507 (......
  • Comment: The right to pre-trial silence: S v Thebus 2003 (2) SACR 319 (CC)
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , September 2019
    • 24 May 2019
    ...drawn from the silence of an accused. They referred to Lord Mustill's decision in R v Director of Serious Fraud Offences, Ex parte Smith [1993] AC 1(HL) at 30E-31B where it was stated that the right to silence is best understood as not denoting a single right, but to a disparate group of im......
  • The Fame, Fortunes and Future of the ‘Rump of the Common Law’: Conspiracy to Defraud and English Law (Part 1)
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 64-5, October 2000
    • 1 October 2000
    ...offencewhich17 Weinberg.aboven. 14, 156.18 D. Campbell.'CautionEnds Right to Silence' The Guardian Weekly. 28 August 1994,11.19 (1992) 95 Cr App R 191.20 (1988) 34 A Crim R 49(Courtof Criminal Appeal. Western Australia).21 Ibid. at 118.22 Ibid.23 Ibid.24 Carter'1995)86 A Crim R 17 at 19, pe......