European Perspective and Standards on Interrogational Fairness
author | Wei Wu |
journal | GofS (ISSN: ) |
volume | 2011 |
issue | EU Criminal Justice, Financial & Economic Crime: new perspectives |
section | Artikelen |
date of publication | May 4, 2011 |
language | English |
pagina | 85 |
abstract | This article examines the contribution which the European Court of Human Rights has made to the development of interrogational fairness at the pre-trial phase in modern European criminal proceedings. Although the Convention contains no explicit reference to the right to remain silent and the privilege against self-incrimination, the Court, drawing its rationale from Article 6 of the Convention, has been steadily developing its distinctive vision of these immunities in an attempt to create a doctrine that sets a limit below which contracting parties should not allow their legal systems |