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Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill

I agree with the noble and learned Lord. If there is one thing that we need now it is clarity. Many of us believed that the common law could be used as the noble and learned Lords, Lord Lyell and Lord Mayhew, said. We thought that that which was being done was being well done, and that we could use the common law to good effect in this way. We all have to accept that the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords disagreed with us and with the Court of Appeal Criminal Division, which was unanimously of that view. So we bow with, I hope, good grace, to its wisdom. This provision seeks to give voice to what it says we should do.