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Legislative background to the right to silence in criminal cases
Legislative background to the right to silence in criminal cases
Legislation
- Article 38 Bunreacht na hEireann
- Section 30 Offences against the State Act 1939
- Section 52 Offences Against the State Act, 1939
- Section 18 Criminal Justice Act, 1984
- Part 4 Criminal Justice Act 2007 (pdf)
- Article 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Table of Cases
The following legal cases have established precedent in Irish and EU courts concerning the right to silence in criminal cases
- Heaney-v-Ireland [1994] 2.I.L.R.M.420
- John Murray-v-United Kingdom (1996) 22E.H.R.R.29
- Quinn-v-Ireland (2001) 33 E.H.R.R.264
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