Part of Crime and Courts Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 9:30 am on 5 February 2013.
Absolutely this is the right forum for this kind of exercise, but the hon. Ladies and hon. Gentleman on the Opposition Benches are trying to posit individual cases. I will say it one more time: the police guidance says that every individual case has to be taken on its merits by a court. It is not for Ministers to tell individual judges how to do their job in future hypothetical situations.