Coroners and Justice Bill
12:20 pm
David Howarth (Cambridge, Liberal Democrat)
Can I move you on to 2A, which deals with the further rules on acts capable of encouraging or assisting? What is the thinking behind 2A(2), which says that
“Where the facts are such that an act is not capable of encouraging suicide, for the purposes of the act it is treated as encouraging suicide if the facts had been as the defendant believed them to be at the time of the act”?
Is that not going back to the days of impossible attempts?