Ratneser rejects PACE

Bermuda's acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Kulandra Ratneser has advised against implementing the revised British prosecutorial system, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), and its attendant reforms. Ratneser declares that PACE "eroded the rights of a defendant," for it takes away the right to remain silent, among other things.

Instead of PACE, Ratneser proposes that Bermuda follow "the common law system [being implemented in] the Caribbean Islands and Australia and some of the African countries," he said. "We are not part of Europe and we never will be... so we have got to develop a model that is suitable to what we have been following for over 100 years."

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