Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee

The Right to Silence, Final Report

Appendix 2
Witnesses and Meetings in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland

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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

  • Ms Sheila James, Solicitor’s Department, Metropolitan Police Service

16 June 1998

  • Ms 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 Commission,
    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 Hon. 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; Mr John Kelly, Superintendent, Crime Branch and Mr Fawkner, Head, Criminal Assets Bureau, An Garda Siochana (the Irish Police Force)

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