The Right to Silence in Transnational Criminal Proceedings

Comparative Law Perspectives

Fenella M. W. Billing (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XV, 372 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-82484-0 (ISBN)

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This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person's silence across borders. This is a question of balance in limiting and protecting the right to silence. The functioning of the applicable law in Denmark, England and Wales and Australia is analysed in relation to investigative and trial measures such as police questioning, administrative questioning powers, covert surveillance and the use of silence as evidence of guilt. On the national level, this work examines the way in which domestic rules balance the right to silence in national criminal proceedings, and whether investigative and trial rules produce continuity throughout the criminal proceedings as a whole. From the transnational perspective, comparative legal analysis is used to determine whether the national continuity may be disrupted to such an extent that cooperation in the gathering of confession evidence causes unfairness. From the international perspective, this research compares the right to silence under the ICCPR and the ECHR to identify the overall effect of cooperating under particular human rights frameworks on the question of balance.

Part I: The right to silence in context: Introduction.- Development of the right to silence in international human rights law.- Part II: National perspectives on the right to silence: The right to silence in Denmark.- The right to silence in England and Wales.- The right to silence in Australia.- P art III: Admissibility of confession evidence across borders: A transnational perspective.- Mutual trust and the right to silence in international cooperation.- Balancing the right to silence in transnational criminal cases.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	XV, 372 p. 3 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	593 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	Admissibility of evidence • comparative law • Confession • ECHR • European Court of Justice • Fair trial rights • Guilty plea • Human Rights • ICCPR • International Convention on Civil and Political Ri • International Convention on Civil and Political Rights • Mutual Trust • right to silence • Transnational criminal law
ISBN-10	3-319-82484-8 / 3319824848
ISBN-13	978-3-319-82484-0 / 9783319824840
Zustand	Neuware