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Policing and Crime Bill

The Minister has mentioned Birmingham time and again as an example but, of course, the court in the Shafi case said that an ASBO should have been used but in the event for any reason that it could not have been, the court already has a power to grant an injunction. Given that judgment, why are the Government setting their faces against what the judiciary says, which after all will be the end recipient of all of this activity when the injunctions are granted, broken and so on? The courts have already held that there are already powers and that ASBOs are sufficient. In the event that they are not, injunctions can already be granted. I am sorry to press the Minister, but I still have not heard from him on this. Why do we need a special sort of injunction if the courts feel that there are already sufficient powers, which is exactly what they have said?