Sex Offenders Register Debate

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Department: Home Office
Wednesday 16th February 2011

(13 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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No, there will be no appeal mechanism.

Aidan Burley Portrait Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase) (Con)
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I welcome the Home Secretary’s statement, the key phrase in which was that public protection must come first. We may compare that with judges who have instead ruled that paedophiles’ and rapists’ rights to privacy must come first. What would she say to those out-of-touch judges in the Supreme Court who are now openly, proudly and provocatively saying that a paedophile’s right to privacy is more important than children’s protection from those who have committed evil sexual acts?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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It is important that we balance the public’s right to protection against the rights of the individual, but as I said at the end of my statement, it is time that we asserted that it is Parliament that makes our laws.