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Chapter 13: Taking a plea

The practice of taking a formal plea of guilty is not inconsistent with Article 6 of the ECHR: X v UK (Application no 5076/71). March 1972; Revitt, Borg and Barnes v Director of Public Prosecutions [2...

Chapter 13: The recording of disciplinary proceedings

All but the most informal tribunals have some arrangement for recording their proceedings. This may take the form of written minutes or a mechanical recording. Both must be subject to challenge and co...

Private hearings

In the case of L v The Law Society [2008] EWCA Civ 811 it was held that: The existence of prior convictions, either spent or unspent, is not of itself sufficient to amount to an exceptional circumstan...

The need for evidence in adversarial proceedings

Held: one of the elements of a fair hearing in criminal proceedings was the right to adversarial proceedings. Each party had to have the opportunity not only to make known any evidence needed for his ...