The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2003] 1 AC 681
Privy Council
Brown
v
Stott (Procurator Fiscal, Dunfermline) and another
2000 Nov 6,
7,
8,
9;
Dec 5
Dec 5
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Steyn, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Clyde and the Rt Hon Ian Kirkwood
Devolution
— Scotland
— “Devolution issue”
— Human rights
— Right to fair trial
— Privilege against self-incrimination
— Police suspecting defendant of having driven with excess alcohol
— Defendant required to identify driver of car
— Whether use of answer at trial incompatible with defendant's right not to incriminate herself
— Whether acts of prosecutor capable of giving rise to “devolution issue”
—
Road Traffic Act 1988 (c 52), s. 172(2)
—
Scotland Act 1998 (c 46), s. 57(2), Sch. 6, para 1(d)
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