21. These investigators have routinely been allowed to testify at criminal trials as expert witnesses, offering what appeared to be scientific data. 22. Unlike during the criminal trial, the civil trial was based on three separate lawsuits. 23. Unlike the criminal trial, the jury did not have to render a unanimous verdict, although it did. 24. A second misconception is the belief that law is solely about criminal trials. 25. Courts may grant injunctions to stop defamatory publications which would prejudice pending criminal trials. 26. Both obscenity and indecency are defined by reference to vague and elastic formulae, permitting forensic debates over morality which fit uneasily into the format of a criminal trial. 27. If for instance this was a criminal trial as to which will rule this to inadmissibility exactly the same. 28. Despite these dangers, the right to silence has already been removed in all criminal trials in Northern Ireland. 29. From the first suspicion or disclosure of abuse to the criminal trial of the alleged perpetrator, children pass through a spectrum of services and professionals. |