Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger"

Part of Bill Presented – in the House of Commons at 7:00 pm on 9 November 2009.

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Photo of Jeremy Wright Jeremy Wright Opposition Whip (Commons) 7:00, 9 November 2009

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 Mr. Grieve said, that the jury is being invited to take no notice at all of something that must count as relevant circumstances.