Clause 12 - Application by prosecution for certain counts to be tried without a jury
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
Mr David Heath (Shadow Minister (Home Affairs), Home Affairs; Somerton and Frome, Liberal Democrat)
The Solicitor-General has talked about the second condition, under which those counts to be tried
''can be regarded as a sample of counts''.
Subsection (9) defines what a sample count is. The only qualification that she wishes to include in that definition is paragraph (c):
''the judge considers that the sample count is a sample of the other counts.''
It is stated that a sample count is simply what a judge considers to be a sample count, without any qualification or any suggestion of what Parliament means by that. Is she satisfied with that?