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Recall of MPs Bill

Proceeding contribution from Conor Burns (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 24 November 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills on Recall of MPs Bill.

My hon. Friend will see that sometimes when the courts come to sentence someone who is brought before them for an offence committed many years previously, they are obliged to look at the sentencing guidelines that applied at the time of the offence. The case he is making is absolutely right: we cannot have retrospective cases such as this.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
588 c690 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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