Criminal & Constitutional · 17 September 2022
Bail is the rule: the Supreme Court’s latest attempt to revive a dead letter
Bail, not jail, unless there is reason to think a person will flee or obstruct justice. It is an easy principle to state and a stubbornly hard one to apply. We look at it again through the Court’s most recent effort to give it real force.
Bail, not jail, unless there is reason to think a person will flee or obstruct justice. It is an easy principle to state and a stubbornly hard one to apply. We look at it again through the Court's most recent effort to give it real force.
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