Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 22 April 2008.
There are other common law jurisdictions, with which we have a concomity of legal principles and ideas of freedom that have much shorter periods of pre-charge detention, and which are managing that by taking other robust measures, such as bringing in intercept evidence. Do I infer correctly that if we could go down that road, there is no reason why we should be taking the road that you are advocating of long periods of pre-charge detention?