Clause 189 - Use of statements obtained under competition act 1998
Enterprise Bill
6:30 pm
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland, Liberal Democrat)
I am not minded to support the amendment. The entitlement to put a prior inconsistent statement to a witness in the course of evidence-taking is important. That has particular implications in Scottish criminal procedure in as much as it can be adopted in certain circumstances; in any event, it can be used to strike at the witness's credibility. The deletion of the subsections would remove that and I can see no good reason to do so.