Part of Criminal Justice Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 6:30 pm on 21 January 2003.
Vera Baird
Labour, Redcar
6:30,
21 January 2003
What has the state done to justify compensation if a person is acquitted the first time around, there is then new and compelling evidence, the state goes through all the proper procedures that we are instituting and gives him another fair trial, and he is then acquitted?
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