Case Note: The Right to Counsel - the Right to Be Informed: Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago V Whiteman [[1991] 2 Wlr [Weekly Law Reports] 1200]
Posted: 31 Jan 2005
Abstract
This slightly belated note on this important decision of the Privy Council on an appeal from the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago is perhaps excusable because of the continued absence of judicial explication in Singapore of the right to counsel. ... The American detective drama scenario of a policeman clasping handcuffs on a suspect whilst reciting the arrested person's right to engage a lawyer (amongst other things) is familiar to most of us. This decision of the Privy Council may well lead the way in founding a similar constitutional obligation on the part of the police in Singapore. ...
Keywords: Constitutional law, bill of rights, civil liberties, human rights, right to counsel, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago
JEL Classification: K40
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