Forgive me, but in the scenario that I have just painted there is no entrapment because nobody is prosecuted. There is just criminal behaviour by a CHIS for the purpose of discrediting in the public imagination an otherwise peaceful protest movement, for example; it could be an environmental movement. At the moment I see nothing in the Bill that bans a criminal conduct authorisation being made with the primary purpose of discrediting an otherwise peaceful movement that perhaps poses a challenge to some people’s idea of the economic well-being of the nation.
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Chakrabarti
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 3 December 2020.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.
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