I agree with what my right hon. Friend is attempting to do, but I suspect he is trying to pot the wrong ball. Suppose he allowed himself to step back a bit from “exceptional public interest”—a moderately nonsensical expression, if I may say so—and consider the issue from a different angle. He will come at the right answer, which is the political answer that he and I want to achieve, and the Treasury answer that he has been invited to achieve, and we can then adjust the system of judicial review so that footling, silly cases that for some reason may have slipped through the net—
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Garnier
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13 January 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.
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