the lecturer, talking about the inadmissibility of confessions improperly or oppressively obtained (under threat, inducement, promise etc) made a joke that was very tame but slightly more risque than i was expecting that i, attention wandering in the backrow, started. could “humiliation of the prisoner”, he asked, be considered ‘oppression’ within the meaning of the statute?“if you take an old man (the lecturer was himself rather ancient) and make him sit together with a lot of miss world contestants, would that be oppressive?”
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