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Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill

My Lords, the noble and learned Baroness referred earlier to serious cases. She has not really dealt with the point raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Mallalieu, that the Bill is not limited to those. Would the noble and learned Baroness be prepared to bring forward amendments to remove magistrates’ courts from the Bill and to limit its provisions to offences that carry a sentence of, let us say, three or five years? It surely is wholly wrong to have a procedure of this kind for minor cases.