New Clause 4
Fraud (Trials Without a Jury) Bill
7:00 pm
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General & Shadow Spokesman On Community Cohesion, Law Officers (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Beaconsfield, Conservative)
I appreciate the Solicitor-General’s concentrating on complexity and length rather than the new clause, which is about the impact on safety. The Jubilee line case suffered massive interruptions. Notwithstanding that, the evidence was that when the jurors were brought together in one room some time afterwards and asked to recollect the case and the key issues, they were able to do so with little difficulty. I suggest that what the Solicitor-General says is mere hypothesis. The only evidence we have, limited as it is, tends the other way.