If the Government are concerned about overlapping criminal offences, particularly the overlap with misconduct in a public office, why in Clause 56 have they created a new offence of making unauthorised disclosures? That seems to completely contradict the argument that the Minister has just offered the Committee.
Investigatory Powers Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Paddick
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 7 September 2016.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Investigatory Powers Bill.
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2016-17
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