Jack Straw' View

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:54:01 +0100
	Roland Perry <roland@linx.net> said...

> 
> In article <200006301914.UAA22268@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, Charles Lindsey
> <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes
> >You need to read Hansard (39.htm Col 1054). 
> 
> >
> >                 (a)  establishing by whom, for what purpose, by what
> >                 means and generally in what circumstances any crime
> >                 was committed; and
> >                 
> >
> >                 (b)  the apprehension of the person by whom any
> >                 crime was committed;
> >is new, though I would have thought it meant "gathering evidence to find
> >where the man was" (scarpered to the Cayman Islands, perhaps) rather
> >than gathering more evidence to convict him. 
> 
> Yes, I think this may be about *finding* the person once you know who
> they are. Otherwise it's "establishing by whom".
> 
> >However the following
> >words seem to belie that:
> 
> Why?
> 
> >           and any reference in this Act to preventing or detecting
> >           serious crime shall be construed accordingly, except that, in
> >           Chapter I of Part I, it shall not include a reference to
> >           

Because they seem to imply that the wording of (a) and/or (b) allows
gathering evidence for use in any legal proceedings, but I don't read
them as allowing more than enough to identify who dunnit (which person
to charge) or where he has scarpered to.

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