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Debate on Thursday, 29 November 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Vera Baird. The answering member was Dominic Grieve.

Convicting Rapists/Protecting Victims

Debate on motion to consider the matter of the Government consultation on convicting rapists and protecting victims. Agreed to on question.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
468 c521-42 
Session
2007-08
Department
Solicitor General
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 468 c521 (Link to this contribution) It will be appropriate to impose a time-limit. Front Benchers are allowed 20 minutes; they may consi...
Ken Purchase | 468 c522 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend will want to congratulate the CPS in Wolverhampton on securing a convicti...
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Vera Baird | 468 c521 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of the Government consultation on convictin...
Vera Baird | 468 c522 (Link to this contribution) Since a good deal of the fall-out for people who complain about rape happens at the start of the pro...
Dominic Grieve | 468 c522 (Link to this contribution) I am obviously pleased about the comments of my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron...
Vera Baird | 468 c522 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on the interest that he has taken in such issues, which are extremely ...
Judy Mallaber | 468 c522 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. and learned Friend been able to gather any evidence on the degree to which sexual assaul...
Vera Baird | 468 c523 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, my last recollection of a Conservative attitude to rape is the suggestion of anonymit...
Jeremy Wright | 468 c523 (Link to this contribution) Will the Solicitor-General give way?
Dominic Grieve | 468 c528-9 (Link to this contribution) I will in a moment. I remind the Solicitor-General that when we passed the Sexual Offences Act 2003...
Shona McIsaac | 468 c528 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Dominic Grieve | 468 c528 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to debate the Government's response to the report, and the responses that ...
Vera Baird | 468 c527-8 (Link to this contribution) I have read ““Map of Gaps”” and I have enormous respect for End Violence Against Women. I shall come...
Jo Swinson | 468 c527 (Link to this contribution) Has the Minister had the chance to read the End Violence Against Women report ““Map of Gaps””, which...
Dominic Grieve | 468 c529-31 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has made her point, and I am not going to get involved in an exercise in semantics as ...
Dominic Grieve | 468 c529 (Link to this contribution) Rather than speaking from a sedentary position, the hon. Lady should listen to what I have to say. S...
Vera Baird | 468 c524 (Link to this contribution) No, that is not quite my point. My hon. Friend has raised the issue with me and I understand her con...
Shona McIsaac | 468 c524 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend will know from the discussions that we have had that I spent most of the ...
Vera Baird | 468 c523-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall carry on because I have given way at least three times in the past five minutes and there is...
Vera Baird | 468 c526-7 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to have the hon. Lady's support. The experts, particularly the psychiatrists' expert, feel...
Vera Baird | 468 c525-6 (Link to this contribution) I am going to carry on, because I have got a lot to say and I am conscious that others wish to speak...
Margaret Moran | 468 c526 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. and learned Friend for the extensive training throughout the criminal justice syst...
Vera Baird | 468 c526 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. She makes a very good point, and I will return to it in more detail later. ...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 468 c526 (Link to this contribution) I should like to ask, for the sake of clarity, whether this new system will operate in a way similar...
Shona McIsaac | 468 c539-40 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady asks what the Government have done. She does not know her subject. The Government have...
David Howarth | 468 c534-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a shame that there is so little time for this important debate, especially given the wide inte...
Dominic Grieve | 468 c536 (Link to this contribution) I find it difficult to see that presenting a pack to a jury beforehand is not a form of giving them ...
David Howarth | 468 c536 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, but juries currently receive some training on the gener...
Chris McCafferty | 468 c536-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that Members in all parts of the House can agree that forcing someone to have sexual inter...
Jeremy Wright | 468 c537-8 (Link to this contribution) In view of the time and the number of hon. Members who want to speak, I will not go over ground that...
Nadine Dorries | 468 c538 (Link to this contribution) The Solicitor-General opened the debate by criticising the Conservative Government, but over the pas...
Jeremy Wright | 468 c538-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that it is not helpful to approach such serious matters in a partisan ma...
Shona McIsaac | 468 c539 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, while many Members were enjoying their summer holidays I spent most of my time en...
Speaker | 468 c534 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman's time is up. There is approximately half an hour left for the debate. I ...
Dominic Grieve | 468 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I may have done so. I simply make the point that we do not ...
Vera Baird | 468 c532 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman has not had long to read the document, and that as the concept is rel...
Dominic Grieve | 468 c532 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Solicitor-General for her remarks, but I shall simply quote the Government's po...
Dominic Grieve | 468 c531-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. Perhaps in eliding those issues I am reflecting in part a sl...
Dominic Grieve | 468 c533 (Link to this contribution) In that case, the Solicitor-General did not read it before she came to the Dispatch Box. I want to ...
Vera Baird | 468 c532 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure why the hon. Gentleman is either nit-picking or trying to count the number of angels o...
Dominic Grieve | 468 c532-3 (Link to this contribution) Again, I quote from the Government's report, which states that if there is"““an appropriate and fair...
Vera Baird | 468 c540-2 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker. Something very queer went wrong with the clock e...
David Howarth | 468 c533 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Gentleman may have misspoken slightly. The existing evidence shows that myths about...
Rob Marris | 468 c531 (Link to this contribution) I may have misunderstood the hon. Gentleman, but he appeared to be eliding what I took to be two sep...
Subjects
Admissibility of evidence Criminal proceedings Convictions Evidence Drunkenness Protection Rape Witnesses Trials Victims Video recordings Expert evidence
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