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Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:15 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Cindy Barnett: We see them as an extension of risk-based injunctions, yes—civil orders with a heavy criminal penalty. They are obviously something that are foreseen for someone who has committed an extremely serious offence that would not have come near us in the first place. Our feeling is that if we are to be given this power, we do not understand why it is not available to the Crown court as well, which would have dealt with the original sentencing.