Does the Secretary of State agree that the difficulty is that people can buy their way out of some bribery charges if they can afford a good enough lawyer? The inconsistencies in the legislation as it stands are not so easily manipulated by people who cannot afford really good legal advice, but they can be taken advantage of to prove someone's technical innocence, as long as they can spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds on lawyers who really understand the ins and outs of the inconsistencies that the Secretary of State has described.
Bribery Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Lembit Opik
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 3 March 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Bribery Bill [Lords].
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