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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

Important as those issues are, will my hon. Friend deal with one more point before he moves on to them? I think that he has said six times that people would have only the defence of reasonable force, which seems to suggest that such force would not be substantial. In fact, the Law Commission, referring to partial defences to murder, stated:"““We acknowledge that such a person, though genuinely acting in fear, might not always act ‘reasonably’ so as to attract the full defence of self-defence.””" In other words, one can go quite a long way and it is important that we get that point across to the public.