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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, we have not described it as a slightly informal appeal process. In fact, we have said the opposite: it will be a formal appeal process. In answer to the question about where the burden of proof lies, maybe I am going too far in responding. Either there is or there is not an infringement. One would not expect someone to be slightly pregnant; they are or they are not. That is, I think, the situation that we would be in. We are not, as we have indicated, expecting the cost of the appeal to be significant. We want to keep it to a minimum. We do not want to deny people the opportunity to appeal. It will be a formal but not—again, I am checking with the Box—judicial process. That should keep costs down.