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31 July 2015
Issue: 7663 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Human rights

Beghal v Director of Public Prosecutions [2015] UKSC 49, [2015] All ER (D) 229 (Jul)

The appellant appealed against her conviction for wilfully failing to answer questions, contrary to para 18 of Sch 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (Sch 7). The Supreme Court, in dismissing the appeal, held that powers in Sch 7 did not breach Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Insofar as there had been deprivation of liberty, it had not breached Art 5 of the Convention. Further, there had been neither a wrongful denial of the common law privilege against self-incrimination nor a breach of Art 6 of the Convention.

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