Do you have the right to remain silent when you are being formally charged?
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You have the right to remain silent when you are being formally charged and asked to sign the Cautioned Statement.
This means that you do not have to mention the facts which you intend to rely on in your defence.
However, the Court may not believe your defence if you fail to mention your defence in the Cautioned Statement and instead only mention it later at a trial, for example, because the Court may feel that your defence has only been recently created and it is not true.
