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The Right to Silence in Transnational Criminal Proceedings

Comparative Law Perspectives

  • Presents a comprehensive analysis of the right to silence in several normative systems
  • Highlights the challenges of admissibility of evidence in transnational criminal proceedings
  • Challenges fundamental concepts in international cooperation, such as mutual trust

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. The Right to Silence in Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Fenella M. W. Billing
      Pages 3-42
  3. National Perspectives on the Right to Silence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
    2. The Right to Silence in Denmark

      • Fenella M. W. Billing
      Pages 97-149
    3. The Right to Silence in England and Wales

      • Fenella M. W. Billing
      Pages 151-198
    4. The Right to Silence in Australia

      • Fenella M. W. Billing
      Pages 199-254
  4. Transnational and International Perspectives on the Right to Silence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 351-372

About this book

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.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Law, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Fenella M. W. Billing

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eBook USD 119.00
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 179.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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