My Lords, I am sorry to delay things, but there is one thing I am not clear about. Restorative justice at the moment is available for the suspect as an alternate to going to court, with the agreement of the victim. If the right is to be given to the victim to insist on restorative justice, is that an addition to a potential court appearance or an alternate? If the Crown Prosecution Service has decided that there will be a prosecution but the victim insists on their right to restorative justice, does that change that decision? I am not quite clear from the amendments, nor the Minister’s response, how that dilemma is resolved. It may be that I have just misunderstood, in which case I apologise, but I do not quite understand how that gets resolved.
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Hogan-Howe
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 31 January 2024.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Victims and Prisoners Bill.
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