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Section 12: All financial institutions will belong to the State, and will be run on workers' co-operative
principles.
Section 13: To promote the universal right of all human beings to the best medical care.
Section 14: To give efect as son as it is practicable the decisions derived at the C.D.A's Annual Party Conference.
Section 15: To secure for all citizens a just legal system in which the financing of all courts, legal representation, forensic evidence, reform centres ( formery termed "prisons"), and police are undertaken by the State only. Elected representatives from the electorate at large will sit on Watch Committees in order to oversee all judicial bodies for the purpose of submitting reports, and make recommendations to parliament.
The attire of judges and lawyers must be in modern dress( no wigs or gowns). The court will be informal and language used in understandable terms to the defendants and jurors.
At all interviews the defence lawyer must be present and full forensic
evidence must be open to both defence and prosecution before any commencement of the trial.
Section 16: Police Officers can submit their names for the post of Chief of
Police in a vacant area and the electorate in that constituency(parliamentary boundary) will vote at least every 5 years to decide.

Section 17 : The C.D.A., will take positive steps in creating a reforming atmosphere within the penal system and  every inmate will have his/her individual cell with ablutions and have postal votes at parliamentary General  Elections.
Section 18: A prosecutor who is a judge will visit the scene of an incident immediately the police have news relating to a possible crime in order to determine whether it is  in fact a criminal offence.
The Judge of  Inspection (J.I.P)  will not be answerable to the police.  As soon as a person is arrested the defendant must within one hour be given a defence solicitor. The defendant has the right to remain silent. Within 24 hours of the arrest the accused must be brought  before a judge together with the accused's solicitor. Any previous confessions must be repeated before this judge. All interviews with the accused must be video taped and in the presence always of the accused's solicitor. The accused has the right to request bail. This will be granted unless the judge considers that the accused will absond ( due to a previous failure to honour bail, or likely to commit  another offence, especially in relation to witnesses for the prosecution).
The person refused bail ( never on grounds of  money demand for bail as a gurantee)
will not be sent  to a Reform Centre
( prison)but to a Bail Center.

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