Illegal Migration Bill: Access to Justice

Part of Justice – in the House of Commons at on 16 May 2023.

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Photo of Alex Chalk Alex Chalk The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

Respectfully, the hon. Gentleman may not have quite read the entirety of the Bill, which makes it clear that in appropriate cases where there is an imminent risk of serious and irreversible harm, there will be the opportunity to make those points. He mentions Magna Carta; Magna Carta also includes the right to be tried by a jury of one’s peers, which he apparently wants to get rid of. I am interested to note that one of the most effective critics of that proposal was none other than the most eminent Scottish jurist Lord Hope of Craighead.