YOUR correspondent Torquil Dick-Erikson (Citizen, April 29) refers to Corpus Juris, proposed for the European Community, giving national judges power to arrest and hold people for six months without public hearing.
This is only a proposal at present, but Mr Dick-Erikson is right to raise warning signals.
In several continental countries if the prosecutor says you are guilty you have a very hard job to prove you are not.
While our justice system in Britain is not perfect, we have basic freedoms many continental countries do not have.
It is in Britain's interests that many aspects of our political and economic life align with the rest of western Europe, but not by sacrificing our personal liberties.
We should crusade to get continental countries to adopt the freedoms we have achieved here.
Andrew Pearce,
Prospective Pro Euro
Conservative Party
candidate for North
West England.
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