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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

The noble Lord will accept that I referred both to the statute and to common law as it stood. The point that I sought to make, which I may not have made succinctly, is that where you have a law that is seldom used but broken daily on thousands of occasions, and a blind eye is turned to that, you are corrupting the sovereignty of that law and it is better to remove it.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
699 c1135 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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