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Lord Beecham to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of concerns about the application of the principle of joint enterprise in criminal cases; and whether they intend (1) to initiate a review of the state of the law in this area, and (2) to collect and publish statistics of murder and other cases in which that principle has been applied since 2014.  HL6221

Question HL6221: tabled on 12 March 2018 and due for answer by 26 March 2018

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Lord Beecham to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of concerns about the application of the principle of joint enterprise in criminal cases; and whether they intend (1) to initiate a review of the state of the law in this area, and (2) to collect and publish statistics of murder and other cases in which that principle has been applied since 2014.  HL6221
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Wednesday 21 March 2018

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Lord Beecham
Labour
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