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Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Beecham (Labour) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 22 October 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills on Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I ascribed the wrong number to the schedule to which I referred earlier. It is Schedule 6 which is about the use of force. The Minister has referred to a number of instances which are certainly in that schedule, but he did not refer to paragraph 8(b), which talks about the use of force being permissible,

“to prevent, or detect and report on, the commission or attempted commission by them”—

that is, prisoners—

“of other unlawful acts”.

That seems an extremely wide definition. Nor did the Minister refer to paragraph 9, which relates to use of force in connection with searches.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
756 c662 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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