Human Rights

The problem that the hon. Gentleman fails to address is that when legislation on the statute book is so systematically misinterpreted—as he would put it—by all the authorities high and low that affect people’s lives day to day in the enforcement of the law, one has to say that somebody has badly failed in educating those authorities on how to apply that legislation. Is the fact that so many people are led to misinterpret it a failure of Government or a failure of the concept of the legislation itself? I know which of the two options I think is the right answer.