Draft Conversion Practices Bill - Oral Evidence 29/10/27, 12.15pm

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This will be worth watching on Thursday. It will be on Parliament TV.

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Definitely agree.

I realise that there's huge pressure on Burnham & co to push this Bill through, and that I'd be naive to assume that evidence & expertise will make any difference but that was SO cheering from our side. The eloquence, clarity, specificity, was inspiring. And the response to the human rights legislation question was a masterclass in the idiot's guide to unintended consequences. Don't know if Helen ever dips her toes into the FSG threads but, if you do Helen...
THANY YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Dennis Kavanagh, Helen Joyce and Dermot Kehoe were very clear in pointing out that the abusive practices referred to by the other side were already unlawful under existing criminal legislation. DK, in the very limited time they had, was very pointed about that.

That was a surprisingly riveting watch, even the first panel’s repertoire of evasive, partial and obfusticatory answers to straightforward questions.

I'm sorry for not paying close attention to this thread but did the Greek guy actually suggest that the criminal standard of 'beyond reasonable doubt' should be replaced by the civil requirement of 'on the balance of probabilities'?

I really hope that I got this wrong. Otherwise, yer man is proposing a complete change to how criminal law should work.