Newsletter

Averill v UK

Author / Contributor: Jeremy Johnson QC
14.16
Averill v UK
   
Issue: Whether there were breaches of Art 6 European Convention from the drawing of adverse inferences from a defendant’s silence in police interviews and from the refusal of access to a lawyer for the first 24 hours of his detention
   
Court: ECHR
   
Reference:   Appn 36408/97
   
Neutral Citation:  
   
Judge(s): J-P Costa (President), L Loucaides, P Kuris, F Tulkens, K Jungwiert, Sir N Bratza, HS Grieve
   
Date: 6 September 2000