My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and entirely agree with what she just said about not bringing flimsy cases that do not stand up in court. She will have heard what was said earlier on about the number of successful prosecutions in other European Union countries. Are we looking at best practice elsewhere so that the failure rate that the noble Lord, Lord West, identified, does not continue for another 11 or 12 years?
Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Alton of Liverpool
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Friday, 20 July 2018.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [HL].
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