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Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill

My hon. Friend is right. Whether or not something may or not result in the ballot being affected is a very moot point indeed, and it could exercise the courts for a very long time. I think there is a danger that the lawyers are sitting out there rubbing their hands with glee, because when they see the Bill they must think, ““Marvellous! We've almost run our course in respect of the 1992 and 1999 legislation, which have been to the Court of Appeal, but we are now going to move back to square one and start again. We can spend hour after hour in the Queen's bench division and then the Court of Appeal.”” That is because the issues will not be dealt with in, say, Uxbridge county court.