Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:45 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Christine Lawrie: We would certainly want them to take that into account. However, there is an overriding welfare issue in relation to those women—the ones I have described—who are in trouble. Our job is to try to offer some kind of support and assistance to them. Assuming, as I do, that it is not a major resource problem, I think that we are more happy than unhappy with the proposal, although we would want to talk to magistrates about how to screen-in only those women who really need this kind of intervention. Our working relationship with magistrates is vital and helps to control some of the traffic of business from them to us.