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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 March 2026
Debate
Crime and Policing BillContribution
No Bill could be more apt for the inclusion of this offence. In Committee the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, expressed the view that the proposed offence might be too broad, first because it referred to the concept of psychological harm and secondly because it set a test for the applicability of the proposed defence, under our proposed new subsection (4), of whether the behaviour of the defendant
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