I do not want to be tiresome, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman is making a persuasive point about the need to mitigate what is a thoroughly bad Bill. He said that he does not want Ministers to say that Parliament’s acceptance of the argument about length and complexity allows them to apply such conditions more widely, but how would mitigation help to prevent that? The Government have form in such matters, and will use any argument that comes to hand. Would not matters be made worse if they were able to say that the House of Commons has decided that jury trial may be abrogated for reasons of the interests of justice, and not just length and complexity?
Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Marshall-Andrews
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 25 January 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill.
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