I am not sure that I heard my noble friend correctly but he talked about child cruelty when someone was, first, in possession of drugs and, secondly, under the influence of drugs. I understood him to say that they were actually under the influence of the drugs of which they were charged with being in possession. Purely for clarification, what is the position if they are in fact under the influence of a different drug? I ask this because barriste2rs are on the whole extremely clever. I would like to make certain there is no escape clause in the Bill.
Serious Crime Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Swinfen
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 14 October 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Serious Crime Bill [HL].
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