Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

I understood my noble and learned friend to say a moment ago that ““exceptional”” means no more than it is a case outside Schedule 1, not that it is exceptional in the class of cases. That is a very different concept. I had understood ““exceptional”” to be in a class of cases that are not covered by Schedule 1 and not in scope and that you would need to have an exceptional case in that class of cases. However, if ““exceptional”” means, as my noble and learned friend said—and no doubt he will think about it—that it is merely a case that is outside Schedule 1, that is a very different situation.