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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Cindy Barnett: We are already guided to continue unless there is good reason not to. Nobody would ever wish to do it if there were a shadow of a suggestion that someone had twisted their leg on the way to court. Carrying on in somebody’s absence is one thing; sentencing them to custody is another, if that is the drift of your question.