GREAT BRITAIN: Suspects, Speak Up

For more than 300 years, Anglo-Saxon law has held that no defendant in a criminal trial can be compelled to testify. Last week the British section of the International Commission of Jurists reaffirmed that right. But what made news for lawyers on both sides of the Atlantic was the vigorous, closely reasoned dissent from the majority report by Barrister John Foster, 56, who is a Conservative M.P., former first secretary of the British embassy in Washington, and wartime head of the legal section of SHAEF in Europe.

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