I waited overnight before checking that this still needs a contrary opinion just for the way you phrased your advice, which seems to impart greater and hidden argument to always cooperate with UK LEO.

a court "may" infer from your silence a negative presumption...

so goes the doctrine

"may"

"may"

"may" conduct a mis-trial if they do.

the UK police have very few powers in reality.

you may not be coerced to provide a statement or submit to a interview.

you can be arrested for justified suspicion and required to attend a police interview.

you are not required to respond in any way

you can elect to provide a prepared written statement instead, which must be construed by a court to have answered and not been un-cooperative. It is a good idea to prepare this prior to your interview and amend if you wish afterwards.

Handing over a statement won't excuse you from a formal interview when under arrest.

But a advance statement can enable your attorney to challenge the grounds for your arrest and detention.

the UK has very strict controls governing arrest for investigation purposes.

arrest is in fact prohibited unless the arrest is required for your attendance or protection of evidence.

the justifying facts can be challenged at any time. A good attorney will pay close attention to the detail of your interview questions and your attorney and you both have the right at any time to stop the interview and seek advice and counsel in private including from additional specialist lawyers. no time limit applies to the time out you call, although it may not count for the maximum limit of time you can be detained without judiciary approval

this being hn I'm g to assume that you have some recourse to the agency of trusted friends and financial resources.

specifically if you have such resources, I cannot recommend enough for you to make your solicitor instruct a reputable criminal barrister the moment you find out what's going on. cooperation with interview obviously helps you learn something helpful and if it doesn't you absolutely should be alarmed and proceed as follows :

you require your counsel to immediately obtain your warrant and any advance information available from the Crown Prosecution Service to be able to advise you on the possibility that your arrest is prejudicial because of a preexisting theory of your guilt.

bogus arguments for your arrest will never be fully compiled for reference and the possibility of embarrassing you calling you at work surely applies to most of us and all who we know.

unless you are unlikely to attend interview on request and unless you are provably likely to destroy evidence or interfere with witnesses YOU SHOULD NEVER BE ARRESTED AT ALL

the fact that potential witnesses won't be disclosed to you normally before interview is why you need to find out what you can as well as decisively excercise your right to counsel the moment you understand more regardless if it's two minutes into a interview everyone took all day to arrange.

as soon as the police can be said to not be forthcoming with witnesses you supposedly will meddle with, presuming you are not vagrant, the game is over for keeping you under arrest

now for 24 hours the duty custody sergeant must authorise your detention at intervals usually connected with the fact that the sergeants job is to oversee the correctness of proceedings and the provision of the rationale to go arrest you and slam you in a cell.

UK police sergeants are good stuff and I say that notwithstanding the contrary is true for too many officers in UK LEO - sergeants are on a different career path and don't like nonsense. they're also much older and more experienced folk. you'll be stood in front of yours at various times when you get your phone call and when you are called to interview and if the station isn't busy you can usually question them directly about your detention. officers have played endless games and detectives likewise - that's the business of it. UK LEO is in a woeful state but your Sarge is the sanest voice of reason you'll hear through your experience and including your attorneys because they're playing another game as well and one which I think has caused a lot of transgressions by officers to take place in the knowledge that you have to be seriously lucky to get a good station attorney attending on you and blessed by the Lord to receive someone who is going to be on point for you if you are arrested in the UK today.

I stress these points : Sarge Good : your attending attorney : suspect.

although anyone who cares will obtain a lot of details very quickly convening your situation, your reality created by silence and concurrent reticence on the part of the police, during the first stages, gives nothing whatsoever for anyone who can do anything for you to go on.

if you are brought before a judge the next morning (Saturday courts do operate and >24hr detention isn't allowed unless you are charged of a offence, IF CPS FAIL TO BRING TO YOUR FIRST HEARING ANY EVIDENCE CAPABLE OF DISPROOF OF THEIR CHARGES FROM THAT MOMENT THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS ARE ONLY A ABUSE OF PROCESS AND UNLAWFUL AND THE DISCOVERY OF INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE LATER ON IN PROCEEDINGS IS IRRELEVANT. I have forgotten the case you'll find it in Blackstone Criminal Practice (the 2 volume reference for barristers to apply proceedings in criminal law - nota very bene because the other volume covers civil law few firms have copies of this vital reference work.

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I'M WRONG YOU CAN purchase Blackstones Criminal Practice individually and for only £350 which is much cheaper than the 2012 set including the companion civil practice volume, which cost me a thousand pounds together.

GET a copy!

I'm crazy huh?

just get your copy and start reading it from a random page : I will take bets (friendly, I'd feel bad for taking from you too easy) that you will be astonished to learn that the foundations and assumptions that you have accumulated inadvertently over the years are simply utterly rotten and dangerous nonsense, within the hour.

(you'll find the critical case law I refer to if you look at the maximum detention of a accused person and regardless I'm going to find a place where this can be found, myself, but it is also in the Judicial Review Handbook (Fordham / Hart Publ. £202) and was given in 1951 meaning that you can pick up used copies of these references for a very modest price which is easy to recoup - at least firm demand always existed however the reduction in price by almost twenty percent for BCP makes me think someone's finally scanned all the thousands of Bible weight oversize pages..

I've placed such emphasis on the value of reference texts because if you can prove to me that a solicitor attending a arrest or representing a first hearing, had any awareness of these vital rights I'm describing today, I shall gladly make it my genuine pleasure to gift you this year's editions as well as additional copies for the use of whomever you subsequently instruct to represent your abrogated rights and obtain for you n
necessary redress. only condition to be the payment for as many more copies out of the costs ordered against or settled with your I learned former lawyers to offer the same again to the next soul who was effectively sacrificed by the incompetence of the only profession who by law not only can but must be paid for their work fully in advance at all times except for attending to arrests.

I must wrap up my points but I hope that I have made it abundantly clear ideally beyond the possibility for doubting the importance to us all in or visiting the UK, this fact that the rights we are supposed to enjoy are so rarely sought for anyone's benefit that I can fairly assert that in criminal prosecution in the UK, the rotting fishes head is this carelessness and ignorance right here.

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