As Articles 6 and 7 of the proposal preclude the use (and not merely the collection) in criminal
proceedings of evidence obtained in breach of the right to
silence and the privilege not to incriminate oneself, these provisions should also be complied with
during administrative
proceedings whenever the results of these
proceedings can be used in subsequent criminal
proceedings.
During their interview with the Citizen, the lawyers called for a high - level national debate over new media and its growing impact on Canadian court
proceedings and spoke of how they deliberately put a protective «code of
silence» on the Williams evidence — even within their own office — and how they agonized for days over the statement Edelson read in court at the end of the hearing.