Proceeding contribution from Lord Thomas of Gresford (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 27 February 2008. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill.
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
Would the noble Lord consider that this is confusion? He referred to the death penalty and the power of the Home Secretary to commute it. That was an exercise of the royal prerogative of mercy, was it not? It is really nothing to do with the sort of issue that we are discussing. Has not that system in some way percolated into the idea that a civil servant, by a stroke of a pen, can bring a person back to prison, perhaps for the rest of his life?
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- 699 c668
- Session
- 2007-08
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- House of Lords chamber
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- Disability Children Criminal proceedings Appeals Armed forces Crimes of violence Age Alternatives to prison HIV/AIDS Discrimination Offenders Parole Prisoners Life imprisonment Police cautions Prisoners' release Rehabilitation Sentencing Young people Sexual offences Young offenders Reoffenders
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- Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2006-07 to 2007-08
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