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Terrorism Bill

I support the amendment, and want to make a simple point. I have already quoted from another judgment in the case of G. Your Lordships should bear in mind the fact that 20 years passed between the case of Caldwell and G, during which the law took a wrong turn. In that 20 years recorders and judges throughout the country summed up to a jury on the basis of the law as wrongly laid down in Caldwell. It is inevitable that people went to prison who would not have gone to prison if the proper principles had been stated in the Caldwell case. For 20 years, the law took a wrong turn. I hear the Minister say that it is with the deepest regret that we move from the objective to the subjective test and that they are making a great concession. If they did not make that concession, it would have been a disgrace.