Coroners and Justice Bill

[Nicholas Bohm]

Caspar Bowden wrote:
>> admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of Nicholas Bohm
> ...
>> 50B would be read as limited by the purposes of 50A (information
>> sharing), and the process you describe would be held to be ultra vires.
>>
>> These provisions are profoundly objectionable for very good reasons; it
>> would be a pity to raise objections based on unsound reasons which
>> would
>> be easily dismissed and undermine the justifiable objections.
> 
> Shame that the Chairman of the Joint Ctee on Human Rights doesn't understand that.
> 
> Mr. Dismore: "The Bill contains a power to amend by secondary legislation any Act of Parliament—the Data Protection Act 1998, the Human Rights Act and, presumably, the new safeguards in the Bill. We should at least have provisions such as those in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 to exempt from amendment by such a process those Acts and the Bill's additional safeguards."
> 
> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090126/debtext/90126-0018.htm
> 26 Jan 2009 : Column 110

True; though if I'm right the safeguards are harmless, and if I'm wrong
they're useful, so the worst that can be said is that this distracts
from the primary issue.

Nicholas
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