No, the person was found guilty; the law was the law. In the judgment, however, the reason why the law was intolerable was given: its maintenance for a security or emergency situation such as war should not prevail in peacetime. It was the Churchill Government, elected in 1951, who then did away with that law.
Identity Documents Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Richard Shepherd
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 June 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Identity Documents Bill.
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