Crime: Media Reporting Debate

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Crime: Media Reporting

Lord Lloyd of Berwick Excerpts
Tuesday 8th February 2011

(13 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord McNally Portrait The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord McNally)
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My Lords, I think that we shall take a question from the Cross Benches and then from the noble and learned Lord.

Lord Lloyd of Berwick Portrait Lord Lloyd of Berwick
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My Lords, in high-profile cases, as I am sure the Minister knows, the police are often under great pressure from the press and others to make an arrest. Does she agree that it is all the more important in such cases that the police should be scrupulous in applying the test of reasonable suspicion, which is an objective as well as a subjective test?