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The UK doesn't have a 5th Amendment.
by brewdad 4y ago
The UK doesn't have a 5th Amendment.
- Phrodo_00 4y agoYeah, because they don't really have an actual consolidated constitution, but the presumption of innocence is one of the principles of English Common Law (see Woolmington v DPP), as well as being one of the rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They just sneak past it by not actually sentencing you of a crime.
- int_19h 4y agoUK has parliamentary sovereignty, so any presumed common law right only exists until the Parliament passes a bill that effectively nullifies it.