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Fraud Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble and learned Lord, who is referring to the Levitt case. I have the highest respect for the Lord Justice who tried that case, but it was an example of things not going as they should have done. Regrettably, it came to that rather unsatisfactory conclusion, but I am afraid it falls into the category of things going wrong because of the prosecution or the judge—or both. It fell fairly and squarely into that category. The noble and learned Lord the Attorney-General is making detailed points about the submissions of the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, and I understand what he is getting at, but he is not grappling with the key point, which is whether it would be better to get rid of the jury.