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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

My Lords, I associate myself with those remarks. This is labyrinthine, if I can use another metaphor. It can have the result that happened in Cardiff when a Crown Court judge of great experience—the Recorder of Cardiff, who has since been made a High Court judge—followed previous directions of this nature to the letter and was criticised for his sentence by the Home Secretary and, as I recall, the Prime Minister, who simply did not understand the nature of the legislation that their own Government had passed. One can see that so readily happening here when the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, may be called upon in the Ministry of Justice to criticise a judicial decision when somebody is simply following the maze that he is creating.