A dizzying number of amendments―161 in total―including some made by the government to its own Bill and some energetic Parliamentary ping-pong between the Commons and Lords marked the 13-month journey of the controversial Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Act
But what exactly is in it? And what was thrown out along the way? LSE Professor Michael Zander looks at both the Bill’s content and its troubled passage into law, in this week’s NLJ.
The curbs on protest, ‘triggered by extreme Extinction Rebellion protests’, attracted outrage. Zander also notes the inclusion of a new offence of recording images of breast-feeding without consent, a change to the time limit on common assault and battery, and the grant of PACE powers of investigation to Food Standards Agency officers.RELATED ARTICLES
