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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

I am not sure whether my hon. Friend has moved off Palmer, but my intervention is about the Palmer point. My hon. Friend quotes Lord Morris and refers implicitly to the subjective and objective test. Does he agree that the test of whether force used in self-defence is reasonable is largely objective? However, the last sentence of the quote from Lord Morris emphasises that there are subjective elements that would depend on a defendant’s specific circumstances. That means that the safeguards that we all want are in the law at present, so the Bill is clearly redundant.