Member

With great respect, I do not understand the Minister’s suggestion that the absence of a reasonable excuse defence would conflict with the European Convention on Human Rights. There can be no breach of the defendant’s human rights unless that person can bring forward an excuse which is reasonable. As I have suggested, it is impossible to envisage in what circumstances the excuse would be reasonable. You need to be a victim to have a human rights argument, and the defendant in this case is not a victim; the victim is the unfortunate woman whose privacy has been violated.