Clause 65 - New and compelling evidence
Criminal Justice Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Hilary Benn (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Leeds Central, Labour)
One could conceive of circumstances arising from the time when DNA evidence was in its early stages and regarded as inadmissible because it was not a sufficiently tried and tested method of science for determining identity. There would not be many such circumstances, but subsection (5) would apply to that one.