Six programmes
3: The Judges' Rules
The Judges' Rules, which are supposedly our main bastion against oppressive conduct in police stations, have less force in law than the Highway Code. (London solicitor,
PAUL BOATENG)
I don't accept that they're not observed and I certainly don't accept that they're not enforced.
(LORD JUSTICE LAWTON)
The Judges' Rules which have operated since the beginning of the century, mainly to control what the police may and may not do to secure statements from suspects, arc currently one of the great burning issues in the administration of justice. Are reforms needed? If so. what should they be? Hugo Young discusses these questions with LORD JUSTICE LAWTON and two experienced High Court judges, MR JUSTICE DRAKE and MR JUSTICE PAIN; solicitor PAUL BOATENG: and barrister NEIL DENISON ; DETECTIVE CHIEF SUPT PHILIP CORBETT ; CHIEF CONSTABLE JOHN ALDERSON ; and others.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN