{"id":552,"date":"2008-07-21T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T08:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2008-07-21T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T08:26:38","slug":"rapid-law-making-recent-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Rapid law making &#8211; recent example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 15pt;\">A recent example of Parliament&#8217;s ability to pass law quickly occurred today by the passing of the <a href=\"http:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2007-08\/criminalevidencewitnessanonymity.html\">Criminal E<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2007-08\/criminalevidencewitnessanonymity.html\">vidence (Witness Anonymity) Act 2008<\/a>.\u00a0 The Act passed all parliamentary stages and was ready for Royal Assent in 4 weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 15pt;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_554\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><div class=\"img size-medium wp-image-554\" style=\"width:220px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/arms.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-554\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/arms.gif\" alt=\"Coat of Arms\" width=\"220\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>arms<\/div>\r\n<\/div><p id=\"caption-attachment-554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coat of Arms<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 15pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The new law was needed because the House of Lords had ruled that in some circumstances courts could not allow witnesses to give evidence anonymously, <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R v Davis <\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">[2008] HL<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 A \u00a36m trial at the Old Bailey was halted, and if the law had not been clarified hundreds of other very serious crimes would not be tried because the identity of witnesses would have to be revealed to the defence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent example of Parliament&#8217;s ability to pass law quickly occurred today by the passing of the Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Act 2008.\u00a0 The Act passed all parliamentary stages and was ready for Royal Assent in 4 weeks. The new law was needed because the House of Lords had ruled that in some circumstances courts [&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-552","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\/552","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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}