Ensuring the Right to a Fair Criminal Trial Using Communication Assistance

Author	Anita Mackay; Jacqueline Giuffrida
Date	August , 2022
Source/Publisher	Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity , 10
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Subjects	Courts and sentencing

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The right to a fair trial is a long-standing common law right, with the High Court describing this as ‘a central pillar of our criminal justice system’. 1 Australia has an international obligation to provide fair criminal trials under Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.2……..read more

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