New Clause 2
Fraud (Trials Without a Jury) Bill
6:00 pm
Stephen Hesford (PPS (Rt Hon Baroness Amos, President of the Council), Privy Council Office; Wirral West, Labour)
Our common-law jurisdiction has developed over hundreds of years and all that common law is judge-made. As time goes by, judges review previous judgments and depart from them or make different judgments. Does not the right hon. and learned Gentleman envisage that a judge might come up with a perverse judgment, to use his term, if he or she thought the prosecution oppressive?