The right hon. Gentleman talks of technicalities, but the law is full of technicalities—that is all it is. He says that Ministers and officials are frightened of judicial review, and so they should be. The pressure on them is to comply with laws and regulations that we have passed. We are encouraging law breaking if we let someone say, “Well, it’s okay. You can skate over that, or you can skate over this. You can get away with it. It was only a minor technicality.”
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Frank Dobson
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 1 December 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.
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