{"id":1342,"date":"2010-01-22T06:13:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T06:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2010-01-22T06:15:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T06:15:58","slug":"in-defence-of-the-home-and-family-the-debate-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"In defence of the home and family, the debate (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1343\" style=\"width:128px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Munir-Hussain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Munir-Hussain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Munir Hussain, businessman who caused brain damage to fleeing burglar<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge has restarted the debate over the force used in defence of the home and family.<\/p>\n<p>In commuting Munir Hussain\u2019s 30-month prison term to a suspended sentence as an \u201cact of mercy\u201d, he said that the \u201ccall for mercy\u201d on their behalf was intense and that the court had concluded that it \u201cmust be answered\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But he stressed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis trial had nothing to do with the right of the householder to defend themselves or their families or their homes.  The burglary was over and the burglars had gone.  No one was in any further danger from them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/law\/article6995992.ece?&amp;EMC-Bltn=BFJED2F\">Reported here in The Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Munir Hussain, businessman who caused brain damage to fleeing burglar The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge has restarted the debate over the force used in defence of the home and family. In commuting Munir Hussain\u2019s 30-month prison term to a suspended sentence as an \u201cact of mercy\u201d, he said that the \u201ccall for mercy\u201d on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}