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PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984)

UK legislation governing police investigative powers, including the code of practice requiring audio (and later video) recording of police interviews, a reform driven partly by the disputed handwritten interview records in the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four cases.

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