Judicial Independence
Debate between Lord Henley and Lord Tebbit(7 years, 7 months ago)
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Lord Henley
My Lords, I do not think that the noble Lord would expect me to comment on what appeared in the Daily Mail today, and I have no intention of doing so. But I shall note what he said about guidance to Ministers and pass it on to my right honourable friends.
Lord Tebbit (Con)
My Lords, it is important that we all reassert in absolute terms the integrity of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, but does my noble friend recollect that in the debates that ran before the abolition of capital punishment, one argument that was frequently put was that the mistakes made by the judiciary could not be rectified after an execution?
Lord Henley
My Lords, my memory goes back quite a long way but I do not actually remember all the debates in detail on the abolition of capital punishment.