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Fraud Bill [HL]

I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord. He spoke of the difficulty in defining secrecy, but later in his response asked: what better defence for the defendant to advance than an explanation of full disclosure? What would be wrong with putting that on the face of the Bill and not just leaving it for the jury to draw appropriate conclusions? If in the view of the noble and learned Lord full disclosure is sufficient to guarantee acquittal, surely that ought to appear on the face of the Bill.