CHAPTER I. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
8. Provisions to secure protection of law
7. No person who is tried for a criminal offence shall be compelled to give evidence at the trial.
''BOOK II Procedure Relating to Summary Offences, PART III Hearing and Subsequent Proceedings, TITLE XIII Hearing and Order, 79. Procedure on appearance of both parties ''
(5)The Court shall then proceed to hear the complainant and such witnesses as he or she may examine, and such other evidence as he or she may adduce, in support of his or her complaint, and also to hear the defendant and such witnesses as he or she may examine, and such other evidence as he or she may adduce, in his or her defence, and also, if the Court thinks fit, to hear such witnesses as the complainant may examine in reply:
Provided that nothing herein contained shall render a defendant compellable to be a witness for or against himself or herself.
1. In the determination of any charge, the accused shall be entitled to a public hearing, having regard to the provisions of this Statute, to a fair hearing conducted impartially, and to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality:
(g) Not to be compelled to testify or to confess guilt and to remain silent, without such silence being a consideration in the determination of guilt or innocence;