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28 July 2011
Issue: 7476 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Self incrimination

Milsom and others v Ablyazov [2011] EWHC 1846 (Ch), [2011] All ER (D) 186 (Jul)

The right to remain silent and the attendant protection against self-incrimination was not an absolute right. To apply any form of direct compulsion to require an accused person to make incriminatory statements against his will did not of itself destroy the very essence of the right and thereby infringe the right to a fair trial.
 

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