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Amendments to the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [H.L.]

Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [H.L.] -
Amendments to be debated in the House of Lords

Here you can browse the Amendments to the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [H.L.] to be moved on Report in the House of Lords.

  
Clause 26		 
  
BY THE LORD THOMAS OF GRESFORD		 
     Page 19, line 8, leave out first ("the witness") and insert ("a witness who is eligible by virtue of section 16(1)") 
  
Clause 27		 
  
BY THE LORD THOMAS OF GRESFORD		 
     Leave out Clause 27 
  
Clause 31		 
  
BY THE LORD SWINFEN		 
     Page 23, line 20, at end insert--
 
    ("(  )  For the avoidance of doubt, the judge must not warn the jury that it is unsafe to rely on the evidence of a witness on the ground only that the witness is a patient in a special hospital detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983.")		 
  
Clause 33		 
  
BY THE LORD THOMAS OF GRESFORD		 
     Page 24, line 5, at beginning insert--
 
    ("Without the leave of the court,")		 
  
BY THE LORD ACKNER		 
     Page 24, line 10, at end insert--
 
("except with leave of the judge who shall give leave if, and only if, he is satisfied that it would be unfair to the defendant not to be at liberty so to cross-examine.")		 
     Leave out Clause 33 
  
Clause 35		 
  
BY THE LORD ACKNER		 
     Leave out Clause 35 
  
Clause 36		 
  
BY THE LORD ACKNER		 
     Leave out Clause 36 
  
Clause 37		 
  
BY THE LORD THOMAS OF GRESFORD		 
     Page 26, line 34, leave out subsections (2) and (3) 
     Page 27, leave out lines 7 and 8 
  
Clause 40		 
  
BY THE LORD THOMAS OF GRESFORD
THE LORD ACKNER		 
     Leave out Clause 40 
  
Clause 41		 
  
BY THE LORD THOMAS OF GRESFORD		 
     Leave out Clause 41 
  
Clause 42		 
  
BY THE LORD THOMAS OF GRESFORD		 
     Leave out Clause 42 
  
After Clause 55		 
  
BY THE LORD COPE OF BERKELEY		 
     Insert the following new Clause-- 
 ("CHAPTER VI A 
 USE OF DEFENCE STATEMENTS 
     .--In section 11 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (faults in disclosure by accused), after subsection (4) there is inserted--
        (4A) Except as provided by this section no part of a statement given under sections 5(6) or 6(2) may be disclosed at a stage in the trial after the jury have been sworn without the consent of the accused."")
Accused's Statements: disclosure.
 
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