Employment Bill [HL]

Let me just finish. In fairness, I have to try to explain this first, and then I can be shot down. If on the other hand, we have Clause 17 as it stands, with no safeguards, the only safeguard would be the safeguards at common law. I promise everybody here that the BNP, which specialises in milking for damages in claims of this kind, would go before the courts here and in Strasbourg. My object is to minimise the risk of litigation and maximise the certainty of the law. I will now of course give way to the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn.