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Children, young people and requests for police station legal advice: 25 years on from PACE (2011)
Journal Article
Kemp, V., Pleasence, P., & Balmer, N. (2011). Children, young people and requests for police station legal advice: 25 years on from PACE. Youth Justice, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225410394288

Informed by data extracted from 30,921 police electronic custody records, drawn from 44 police stations across four police force areas and including 5153 records of juveniles aged 10 to 17 years, this article examines the take-up of legal advice by c... Read More about Children, young people and requests for police station legal advice: 25 years on from PACE.

The justice lottery?: police station advice 25 years on from PACE (2011)
Journal Article
Pleasence, P., Kemp, V., & Balmer, N. (2011). The justice lottery?: police station advice 25 years on from PACE. Criminal Law Review, 2011(1),

January 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the unequivocal right of police station detainees to obtain advice from a solicitor. However, while this right is a fundamental safeguard to procedural propriety, no large-scale investiga... Read More about The justice lottery?: police station advice 25 years on from PACE.