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Volumn 1996, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 306-317

The presumption of innocence in English criminal law

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EID: 5244285007     PISSN: 0011135X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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    • The impact of the European Convention on Human Rights is discussed in part B below, n.23.
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    • For analysis, see I. Dennis, "Instrumental Protection, Human Right or Functional Necessity? Reassessing the Privilege against Self-Incrimination" (1995) 54 Camb.L.J. 342; J. D. Jackson, "Interpreting the Silence Provisions: the Northern Ireland Cases" [1995] Crim.L.R. 587; R. Pattenden, "Inferences from Silence" [1995] Crim.L.R. 602; P. Mirfield, "Two Side-Effects of Sections 34 to 37 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994" [1995] Crim.L.R. 612.
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    • ibid. p. 15; they also stated that many offences created by statutory instrument under various statutes were not set out in Stone.
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    • We also omitted a small number of offences for which Archbold gave no details, our view being that they were rarely invoked.
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    • note
    • For other offences that gave rise to this problem, see e.g. the offence of impeding the investigation of terrorist offences contrary to s.17(2) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1989; and the offence created by s.330 of the Companies Act 1985.
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    • Offence and Defence
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    • This approach also meant that we did not have to struggle with the controversial distinction between offence elements and defence elements: see, e.g. K. Campbell, "Offence and Defence" in I. Dennis (ed.), Criminal Law and Justice (1987).
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    • note
    • Other examples of legislative ambiguity include s.6(1) of the Hallmarking Act 1973 and s. 11(5) of the Aviation Security Act 1982.
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    • note
    • The decision of the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal in Fegan [1972] N.I. 80 construes "to show" as meaning "to prove", and this was adopted in Attorney-General's Reference (No. 2 of 1983) (1984) 78 Cr.App.R. 183, on s.4 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883.
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    • note
    • This example is strengthened by the second part of subsection (2), which states that the possession of a sketch, plan, pass word, etc., "shall be deemed" to be for a purpose prejudicial to the State "unless the contrary is proved" - an example of a rebuttable presumption.
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    • note
    • This adds together columns (4), (5), (6), (7), and (8) of the Table, making 219 offences out of the total of 540 = 40 per cent.
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    • note
    • Among the other reasons mentioned were respect for the Woolmington principle itself, consistency with the general common law position, and removal of the need for complicated directions to the jury on differing standards of proof.
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    • There is a separate argument that strict liability may be justified for corporate defendants in respect of possibly harmful activities in which they choose to engage (see, e.g. Ashworth, Principles of Criminal Law (2nd ed., 1995), pp.155-167). However, many of the strict liability offences in our survey may be committed by individuals.
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    • Ashworth1


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