Jeremy Wright

I am grateful. May I bring the Minister back to the wording of the Bill? Surely the difficulty here is not that we are asking for new law that would make sexual infidelity of itself and solely a qualifying trigger in this context; rather, the problem is that the Bill provides that a thing done or said that constitutes sexual infidelity is to be disregarded. The Minister would be right if the Bill set this out as solely sufficient for a qualifying trigger, but it does not; surely what is unrealistic is, as my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) said, that the jury is being invited to take no notice at all of something that must count as relevant circumstances.

— from debate entitled “Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger"”

The three speeches/headings immediately before

  1. 1 earlier: Claire Ward

    I shall give way for the very last time, as I need to make some progress.

  2. 2 earlier: Jeremy Wright

    rose—

  3. 3 earlier: Claire Ward

    I certainly agree with my hon. Friend. Of course we do not believe that fidelity, however desirable, is appropriately or effectively championed by treating the victims of infidelity, who go on to kill their unfaithful partner, more leniently. That is essentially the issue.

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