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View from the Foot of the Tower: Miranda warnings and care proceedings

Date:25 JUN 2014
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There are two legal authorities from America that most people have heard of – Roe v Wade which legalised abortion and Miranda-Escobedo which set out that you have to read a suspect their rights. Most of us can make a pretty good effort at the Miranda warning based from a lifetime of watching movies (although in reality snarling it at the ‘perp’ whilst roughly handcuffing them behind their back is not mandatory).

Recently the High Court was invited to adopt a ‘reading them their rights’ policy before a witness gave evidence in care proceedings.

Re X and Y (Disclosure of Judgment to Police) [2014] EWHC 278 (Fam) [2014] 2 FLR (forthcoming and reported at July [2014] Fam Law 961)

This related to a request by the...

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