Bar Association speaks out in support of the right to silence

11/02/2013

The president of the New South Wales Bar Association, Phillip Boulten SC, was interviewed for ABC Radio 702, regarding NSW Government plans to remove the right to silence when arrested. Mr Boulten said: "_It will be the English system without the safeguards. The English have found it to be extraordinarily expensive. They've found it to be extraordinarily complex. It raises a whole lot of very important issues that are fought out commonly in the courts."_ The transcript is available in the Bar Library.

Further, in an article published in today's Sydney Morning Herald, the president voiced concerns that "Legal Aid has been forced to shed solicitors and does not have enough resources to provide the legal advice that will be needed for people denied the right to silence".

11 February 2013