Clause 62 - Cases that may be retried
Criminal Justice Bill
11:00 am
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman may be right. That is why I raised the question with the Minister. However, the Minister did not answer, which is why I have raised it again. Subsection (2) states:
''A person acquitted of an offence in proceedings mentioned in subsection (1) is treated for the purposes of that subsection as also acquitted of any qualifying offence of which he could have been convicted in the proceedings''.
Surely, if he could have been convicted, he might have been convicted if he had been charged. That is why I have asked the question. Perhaps I have misunderstood the wording. It is a difficult clause and I have not spent hours poring over it, but there is a question to be answered and the Minister may be able to answer it immediately.