Clause 85 — Defendant's Bad Character

Part of Criminal Justice Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:00 pm on 2 April 2003.

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Photo of Robert Marshall-Andrews Robert Marshall-Andrews Labour, Medway 7:00, 2 April 2003

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I will not weary him with this point, but if the doctor case is going to be used as a seminal example in the argument for a serious change in the law, will he tell us why that doctor's form was not admitted before the jury? On the facts that he has given us, any lawyer would say that that was manifestly a case in which the doctor's form should have gone in. That might have been a case not of an aberrant law but of an aberrant judge.