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Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill

My Lord, I mentioned one that Mr Simon Hughes put to Mr Blunkett: that instead of a conventional jury there would still be a jury but it would have an expert element. There are a whole series of possibilities. What I object to is that the only consultation has been a seminar organised by the noble and learned Lord on 30 January 2005. There has been nothing since. I know that we in this country have only an unwritten constitution, but a change of this magnitude ought to be built on stronger foundations than that. The Government do not come with clean hands. For 10 years—