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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2011
Voting by Prisoners

"Notwithstanding the comments of my hon. Friends the Members for Worthing West (Sir Peter Bottomley) and for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry), the motion on the Order Paper in my name and that of right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House has been carefully crafted in light of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2011
Voting by Prisoners

"I am grateful for that intervention, but I ask the hon. Gentleman to listen to where I am going rather than to what he has heard so far.

The minority stressed that

“it is essential to bear in mind that the Court is not a legislator and should be careful …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2011
Voting by Prisoners

" Yes, it will. One of the difficulties that the Government face, and which those arguing the case in the Grand Chamber faced, was the previous jurisprudence of the Court, where the article had been misconstrued well beyond its original purpose, to give rise to individual rights that the framers …..."
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