Legal Defender Best Practices
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- Right not to be tortured
- Accession to ICCPR, article 7 (torture clause)
- No arbitrary arrest or detention (ICCPR, article 9-1)
- Informed, at the time of the arrest, of reasons for arrest (ICCPR, article 9-2)
- Bail Provisions
- Illegality of improperly obtained evidence and coerced confessions
- Laws regulating legal arrest
- Rules for legal search and seizures
- Presence of Counsel at earliest stage possible
- Anyone who has been the victim of unlawful arrest or detention shall have an enforceable right to compensation
Substantive Right | Laws to be in place | Lawyer's Practices | Structural Implementation |
Right to Non Self-Incrimination | |||
Security of the Person |