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I thank the Minister for giving way. Is the issue of character references addressed in the Bill or will it be dealt with in an amendment that she intends to table?
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I thank the Minister for giving way. She has hit on something really intriguing. She gave the example of somebody who was of good character all their life and cracked. That person will also have been found guilty at that point at which a character reference is submitted. On the basis of what she has just said, would…
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Will the Minister explain a wee bit more about how that would come about, who would call for that and how the judge would be made aware of that evidence?
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. As I mentioned at the beginning of the debate, progressing the Bill is a priority for me. I thank all Members who contributed to the debate for their constructive and positive engagement. In general, the engagement that we have had on the Justice Bill and, hopefully, that we will have on the…
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As a DUP member of the Justice Committee, I welcome the Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill moving to Second Stage. As other Members have mentioned, we are currently handling three substantial Bills at Justice Committee: the Justice Bill, the amendments on which we completed voting on earlier today after seven days of…
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.
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I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I echo other Members' comments about Geraldine Hanna, the Commissioner Designate for Victims of Crime, and her team. I was very privileged to be involved in the research, and the subsequent report highlighted what victims and survivors go through when in court, how that…
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I will speak as a DUP member of the Justice Committee on the Second Stage of the Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill. For me, the Bill is not simply about creating another office or changing another piece of legislation; it is about people. As MLAs, every one of us has sat across a desk from constituents whose lives…
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No, I will not give way. You have rambled on for long enough in this place. When it comes to the early clauses of the Bill, I, like others, put on the record our appreciation of the work of Geraldine Hanna and our support for the intent of Part 1 of the Bill, which puts the role that she has been carrying out…
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I welcome the opportunity to speak at the Second Stage of the Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill. I am proud to be from a party that consistently supports the best available human rights advice on all matters. I fail to understand why anybody would boast about having a position that is at odds with human rights…
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I am genuinely curious to hear which organisations you are referring to. None come to mind.
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I agree. I rang one of the victims on the evening after the conviction and apologised. Even though I had no role over Mr Campbell, I said that I was ashamed that that man, Lloyd-Lavery, was ever employed by the party or by an MLA and ashamed that the man who gave him a character reference was a former chair of our…
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I appreciate the strength of the Member's words on the Lloyd-Lavery case. Certainly, what happened in that case was that the reference, in a sense, compounded the hurt of the victims and their families because, whatever the outcome of the judge's considerations, it trivialised and dismissed the real pain that they had…
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I agree entirely. Pre-conviction references in what would be classed almost as clandestine crimes — crimes that are committed out of public sight — are practically valueless because what the public or your work colleagues see is entirely different from how you behave at home or online. Therefore, they have really…
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I thank the Member for giving way. The added complication, of course, is that, with domestic and, in particular, sexual offences, the offender will often have groomed an entire community, not just the individual victim, to believe that they are above reproach, would not have conducted themselves in such a way and…
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I welcome the Bill. It is long overdue, because our justice system in Northern Ireland is tilted towards the interests of suspects and perpetrators over and above the interests of victims and the general public. I hope that the Bill will go some way to recalibrating and reorienting our justice system back to being…
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On behalf of the Alliance Party, I am proud to contribute to the Second Stage debate on Minister Long's Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill. As the Bill's explanatory and financial memorandum states, it aims: "to create a more victim- and witness-centred ... protective criminal justice system". It is imperative that…
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I welcome the opportunity to speak at Second Stage of the Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill. I will begin by acknowledging the importance of the Bill in placing the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses of Crime and that office and its functions on a permanent statutory footing. That will strengthen recognition of…
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OK. I thank my colleague — indeed, the Minister — for responding. It is, as the Minister said and my colleague highlighted, a sensitive area. People who are approached to give a reference should think long and hard about the implications of the references that they give: where they might wind up; the circumstances in…
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