ABSTRACT
It should be noted that the question is only concerned with the interviewing scheme under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984, not with other methods of addressing the problem of miscarriages of justice. Essentially, the following matters should be considered: • the nature of the safeguards available under Pts IV and V of
PACE and Codes of Practice C and E; • the provisions determining when the safeguards come into
play-definition of an ‘interview’—interviewing inside or outside the police station;
• the legal advice provisions; • the recording provisions; • the value of exclusion of evidence as a form of redress for
breaches of the interviewing scheme-the relevance of ss 3437 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994;
• the scope for miscarriages of justice which remains.
