Clause 18
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]
11:45 am
Jeremy Browne (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Taunton, Liberal Democrat)
I just want to make a brief contribution because new clause 2 is tabled in my name, and because it is a complicated clause compared with others.
At present there is no obligation on the state to keep the circumstances of the order under review. That obligation to apply for a discharge or a variation order rests with the defendant. My enthusiasm is to try to make the state more accountable for its actions by placing that burden of keeping the order under assessment, and to ensure that if there is a consideration of discharge or a variation to the order, it is obliged to undertake that.