Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee

Sixth Annual Report,
May 1999

Ordered to be printed
By Authority.  Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
No. 47 Session 1999


Appendix 6
Overseas Program Inquiry into the Right to Silence

United Kingdom 15 June 1998
16 June 1998
17 June 1998
18 June 1998
19 June 1998
Republic of Ireland 22 June 1998
23 June 1998
24 June 1998

United Kingdom

15 June 1998

  • Mr G.J. Patten, Assistant Director of Casework Services, Crown Prosecution Services
  • Dame Barbara Mills QC, Director of Public Prosecutions
  • Mr John Wadham, Director, Liberty
  • The Rt. Hon. Michael Howard QC MP, House of Commons, Parliament of the United Kingdom
  • Mr Thomas Williamson, Assistant Chief Constable, Nottinghamshire Constabulary
  • Inspector Brian Roberts, Criminal Justice Office, Metropolitan Police Service
  • Sheila James, Solicitor's Department, Metropolitan Police Service

16 June 1998

  • Heather Hallett QC, Chairman, The General Council of the Bar
  • Mr Stephen Silber QC, Commissioner-Criminal Law, Law Commission

17 June 1998

  • Mr Roger Ede, Secretary, Criminal Law Committee, The Law Society
  • Mr John Lyon, Director, Criminal Justice and Criminal Policy Directorate, Home Office and Mr Robert Street, Research Officer, Crime and Criminal Justice Unit, Home Office
  • Mr Micheal Hill QC, Barrister; Ms Linzi McDonald, Solicitor; Mr Alan Kent, Barrister; Mr James Richardson, Barrister and Mr Nigel Sweeney, Treasury Counsel

18 June 1998

  • Mr R. C. F. Gillanders, Policy Division, Serious Fraud Office
  • Professor Michael Zander, Professor of Law, London School of Economics

19 June 1998

  • Mr Roger Leng, Reader in Law, School of Law, The University of Warwick Coventry

Republic of Ireland

22 June 1998

  • Mr Michael Flahive, Principal, Law Division, Department of Justice
  • Mr Simon O'Leary, Deputy Director, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
  • The Hon. A. J. Hederman, President and members of the Law Reform Commission
  • Professor Ivana Bacik, Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Trinity College Law School, University of Dublin

23 June 1998

  • Professor Paul Casey, Professor of Law, University College Dublin
  • The Hon. David Byrne SC, Attorney-General of the Republic of Ireland
  • Mr Pat O'Connor, Senior Vice-President, Law Society of Ireland
  • His Honour Judge Pat McCartan
  • Mr Michael Hanahoe; Mr Michael Buckley; Mr Barry Donoghue; Mr Michael Staines and Ms Colette Carey – Members of the Irish legal profession

24 June 1998

  • Mr Pat O'Toole, Commissioner, An Garda Siochana (Irish Police Force); Mr John Kelly, Superintendent, Crime Branch and Mr Fawkner, Head, Criminal Assets Bureau

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