Proceeding contribution from Lord Herbert of South Downs (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 January 2008. It occurred during Debate on bill on Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill.
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
No, I will not. Back Benchers barely had a chance to intervene, let alone to make a speech. We debated prostitution, or rather one hon. Member moved her new clause on prostitution and was able to speak for 15 seconds. We did not reach at all the powers of magistrates courts—very controversial measures to restrict magistrates' ability to suspend sentences. We did not discuss provisions on pornography and sex offenders. We did not reach the issue of personal data, and Opposition Members were unable to move an amendment proposing an offence of recklessly mishandling data—an offence that is currently of enormous interest to the public given the debacle in relation to data loss by the Government, and which has been proposed by the Justice Committee and the Information Commissioner. We did not debate miscarriages of justice or powers to restrict the Court of Appeal, which have caused enormous controversy outside the House, and on which the Government have been completely at sea.
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- Proceeding contribution
- Reference
- 470 c485-6
- Session
- 2007-08
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Complaints Criminal proceedings Appeals Crime Bail Detainees Armed forces Crimes of violence Anti-social behaviour Blasphemy Burglary Arrest warrants Electronic tagging Incitement Judgements Offenders Northern Ireland Police Prisoners' transfers Prisons Prisoners' release Prostitution Overcrowding Scotland Sentencing Sexual offences Young offenders Sexuality Repatriation Strikes Anti-social behaviour orders Self-defence Youth rehabilitation orders
- Legislation
- Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2006-07 to 2007-08
- Criminal Law Act 1967
- Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967
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