Clause 84 - Defendant's bad character
Criminal Justice Bill
5:34 pm
Mr David Kidney (Stafford, Labour)
Like the hon. Member for Witney, I have thought carefully about what to say on the clause stand part debate. Will we ever reach it? I should say that I still prefer the Law Commission's draft Bill in its entirety. Does the Minister accept the Bar Council's argument that sometimes prejudicial evidence will come out before the defendant knows it and before there can be an order to exclude it? It could come out in cross-examination of the defendant.