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The right to a fair trial is one of the key points established within the human rights act 1998.
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The right to a fair trial is one of the key points established within the human rights act 1998. ECHR Article 6 (1) & (3)(c), in summary, states that everyone charged with a criminal offence is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law and has the right: 'to defend himself in person or through legal assistance of his own choosing or, if he has not sufficient means to pay for legal assistance, to be given it free when the interests of justice so require'. Article 6 is one of the most significant convention articles and the one that is most frequently found to be violated.1 The far-reaching powers contained in new legislation have led the Government to derogate from Article 5 of the ECHR just over a year after the HRA came into force2. This decision...
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