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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

The noble Lord said that, because someone has committed a violent offence before, we are going to impose another restriction on them. That is double jeopardy in anybody’s book. It is punishing people a second time around and that is plumb against the European Convention on Human Rights and, above all, against English judicial tradition.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
699 c1174 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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