R v Director of Serious Fraud Office, ex parte Smith

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

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    ...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......
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    ...For example, the accused has a right of silence and a right to a lawyer at the trial. 2R v Director of Serious Fraud Office, ex parte Smith[1993] AC 1 at 30. 3 The relevant portion of the Constitution of the United States reads: “No person … shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a w......
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    ...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 (......
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    ...to silence has come to be consideredas one of the sub-rights of this broad privilege.2RvDirector of the Serious Fraud Office, ex p Smith [1993] AC 1 at 30, per Lord Mustill (emphasis added).3 D. McGrath, Evidence (Thomson Round Hall: Dublin, 2005) 644.4 When referring to the privilege again......
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