being a fact which in the circumstances existing at the time the accused could ...
34(1). What becomes crucial is the 'real' reason for the silence and the precise direction that the judge gives to the jury. The central ...
Section 34 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (CJPOA) 1994. Section 34 allows an inference to be drawn if a suspect is silent when ...
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c.33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It introduced a number of changes to the law, most ...
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1. Section 34 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 provides that a court, in determining whether the defendant is guilty of the offence ...
Author(s). Tom Bucke; Robert Street; David Brown. Date Published. 2000. Annotation. England's Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994 made important ...
It stressed that the trial judge should tell the jury that the burden of proof remains on the prosecution and what the required standard is, that the defendant is ...
34-39 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (CJPOA) qualified the right to silence by allowing adverse inferences to be drawn from silence. During this ...
Section 38, however, makes it clear that the accused cannot be convicted on the basis of silence alone, that is, on the basis of an inference drawn under ss 34–37, ...