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<h2><font size=6><b>What are the most controversial parts of the Police
Crime Sentencing and Courts
Bill?</b></font></h2><font size=6><b>
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</a></font><font size=5><i>TEARING UP THE POST WAR SETTLEMENT - THE 1948
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS - Police State UK Criminalising
Protest & Homelessness: MPs Are Bringing In Priti Patel's Police
Crime Sentencing & Courts Bill
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</i></font><h3><b>Police can impose more conditions on
protests</b></h3>Clause 55 will let police impose start and finish times
and maximum noise levels on a wider range of protests in England and
Wales.<br><br>
Officers will be able to do this if they believe the noise “may result in
serious disruption to the activities of an organisation” nearby.<br><br>
The power is not limited in the law to noise levels or start times - a
police officer can take “such conditions as appear necessary” to that
officer “to prevent disorder, damage, disruption, impact or
intimidation.”<br><br>
The Home Office argue this is simply widening powers that already exist
for moving marches to cover static protests as well. But civil liberties
groups say noise and disruption are a key part of making your voice
heard.<br><br>
It will be up to the Home Secretary - currently Priti Patel - to decide
the definition of “serious disruption”.<br>
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<h3><b>‘Serious annoyance’ will carry up to 10 years’ jail</b></h3>Clause
59 will axe the ‘common law’ definition of public nuisance and replace it
with a clear set of words agreed by Parliament.<br><br>
It will make it a crime to “intentionally or recklessly” cause public
nuisance without a reasonable excuse.<br><br>
Offenders will get up to a year’s jail from magistrates or 10 years from
a crown court judge if found guilty, in the worst cases.<br><br>
The government insists this is simply taking the current definition of
public nuisance and putting it on a proper footing. “This will provide
clarity to the police and potential offenders, giving clear notice of
what conduct is forbidden,” the Home Office said.<br><br>
But there is not a clear list of “reasonable excuses” - the government
just say defendants will have to prove that excuse existed in court, on
the balance of probabilities.<br><br>
And two words in this clause have attracted a lot of interest.<br><br>
Someone will fall foul of the law if they have caused a person “serious
distress, serious annoyance, serious inconvenience or serious loss of
amenity.” How will “serious annoyance” be interpreted by police?<br><br>
<h3><b>Most loudhailers will be banned outside Parliament</b></h3>Clause
57 will hugely expand the “controlled area” outside Parliament, where
tents and unauthorised loudspeakers or megaphones are banned.<br><br>
Currently the area only covers the garden and footpaths in the middle of
Parliament Square, with other roads around it not under any special
anti-protest law.<br><br>
But the Bill will expand this controlled area to several roads around
Parliament after a number of demos stopped traffic. These roads are Canon
Row, Parliament Street, Derby Gate, Parliament Square and part of
Victoria Embankment.<br><br>
Those who disobey can be fined up to £5,000.<br><br>
A similar move was recommended by Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human
Rights, which warned access to parliament must not be obstructed after a
wave of threats against MPs.<br><br>
However, opposition has united critics from Richard Tice, leader of Nigel
Farage’s anti-lockdown Reform UK party, to Tom Brufatto, former lead
organiser of the People’s Vote marches against
<a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/brexit">Brexit</a>.<br><br>
In an open letter today they say: “As long as laws are made in
Parliament, then British people must have a legal right to protest them
in Parliament Square. Democracy is not an 'inconvenience'. Public
opposition and dissent are among the hard-won rights that make our
democratic and like-minded groups.”<br><br>
<h3><b>One-person protests face a crackdown</b></h3></b></h3><br>
One-man anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray (Image: Jeff Mitchell)<br><br>
Clause 60 has already been dubbed the ‘Steve Bray’ law, after the man who
spent years shouting ‘Stop Brexit!’ at Parliament.<br><br>
It will give senior police the power to impose any conditions they see
fit on a one-person protest to avoid “disruption or impact”.<br><br>
This can only be done if they believe the noise that person is making
“may result in serious disruption to the activities of an organisation
which are carried on in the vicinity of the protest.”<br><br>
But once again, Home Secretary Priti Patel will be able to define this
“serious disruption”.<br><br>
One-man-bands who knowingly refuse to comply with police orders can be
fined up to £2,500. Someone who “incites” the one-person protest not to
comply could be jailed for up to 51 weeks.<br><br>
Ardent Remainer AC Grayling tweeted: “It's a great honour to Steve Bray,
and an unmistakable sign of the weakness, pettiness, illiberality and
unintelligence of this Brexiter 'government', that it seeks to pass a
Bill that singles him out.<br><br>
“He has humiliated and stung them and they want to shut him up; he should
be knighted.”<br><br>
<h3><b>Is the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill fit for
purpose?</b></h3>YesNo<br><br>
<h3><b>Defacing a statue will carry up to 10 years’ jail</b></h3>Clause
46 will raise the maximum penalty for criminal damage to a memorial or
statue from three months to 10 years.<br><br>
Currently judges and magistrates have to base their sentence on the
monetary value of the damage. In future they will be able to look at the
“emotional and symbolic value” of the damaged statue too, said minister
Kit Malthouse.<br><br>
The Tories are doing this in a ‘culture war’ after statues including
Winston Churchill’s were attacked or damaged with graffiti.<br><br>
No10 insisted the focus would be on vile things like anti-Semitic
graffiti or attacks on gravestones, war memorials, memorials to people
who’ve been murdered.<br><br>
But that’s not quite how it was trailed in right-wing newspapers. The
issue has prompted anger from Labour, who say the move is a distraction
and will in theory mean longer sentences for attacking statues than some
attacks on women.<br><br>
<h3><b>People in protest camps can be jailed for three
months</b></h3>Clause 60 will create a new offence of “residing on land
without consent in or with a vehicle”.<br><br>
This could affect protest camps like Extinction Rebellion, as the law
will apply even if their “residing” is only temporary, and will apply
equally to common land and private land.<br><br>
Protesters can be ordered to leave by police if they are deemed to be
causing “significant disruption”, or even if they haven’t caused
disruption yet but it is deemed “likely” in future.<br><br>
If they refuse, they can be fined up to £2,500 or jailed for up to three
months.<br><br>
Police will also be given more powers to remove unauthorised encampments
on roads.<br><br>
A petition signed by more than 130,000 people warned criminalising
trespass would be “an extreme, illiberal and unnecessary attack on
ancient freedoms”, adding: “For a thousand years, trespass has been a
civil offence.”<br><br>
Critics say the law threatens not only protests, but also wild camping,
ramblers, new rights of way and Traveller communities.<br><br>
<h3><b>What else is in the Bill?</b></h3>The plans include new laws to
reform sentencing, the courts and the management of offenders, as well as
more powers and protections for the police, some of which will be UK-wide
while others may only apply in England and Wales.<br><br>
All these could in theory still be approved by MPs later, while removing
the bits on protest, if the Bill passes second reading.
<ul>
<li>Whole Life Orders for premeditated murder of a child
<li>Maximum sentence to 18 to 20-year-olds in exceptional cases, like for
acts of terrorism leading to mass loss of life.
<li>Powers to halt the automatic early release of offenders who pose a
danger to the public
<li>Ending the automatic release halfway through a sentence of serious
violent and sexual offenders.
<li>Life sentences for killer drivers.
<li>Expanding position of trust laws to make it illegal for sports
coaches and religious leaders to engage in sexual activity with 16 and
17-year-olds in their care.
<li>Officers could also be allowed to stop and search people more if
plans for serious violence reduction orders go ahead.
<li>Legal duty on councils, police, criminal justice bodies, health and
fire services to tackle serious violence and share intelligence.
<li>Deaf people could sit on juries for the first time.
</ul><br>
<h3><b>What does it do for women who’ve suffered violence?</b></h3>There
are some limited clauses, such as ending early release for serious sexual
offenders. But Labour have complained the Bill does not do enough to help
women.<br><br>
Shadow domestic violence minister Jess Phillips said: “The Bill is full
of divisive nonsense like locking up those who damage statues for longer
than those who attack women. Now is a moment to change the criminal
justice system so it works for women, not to try and divide the
country.”<br><br>
Shadow Justice Secretary
<a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/david-lammy">David Lammy</a>
said: ”In the 20 schedules, 176 clauses and 296 pages of the
Conservatives' Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill,
"women" are not mentioned even once.”<br><br>
Police minister Kit Malthouse insisted the government had taken steps to
protect women.<br><br>
He said: “The domestic abuse bill, which is an extensive bill that will
significantly enhance our ability to confront domestic violence and abuse
is just finishing its passage through the House and contains enormous
provisions to help us with that fight.”<br><br>
The Domestic Abuse Bill is currently in its report stage in the House of
Lords - one of the later steps towards it becoming law.<br><br>
But it has taken three years to get this far - having been delayed in
coming to a vote by two successive General Elections.<br><br>
<h3><b>What is Labour’s position?</b></h3>Labour will vote against the
entire Bill at second reading. If that succeeded (it won’t) it would kill
off the entire Bill at the first hurdle.<br><br>
Realistically, it’s likely Labour will then try to amend the most
controversial bits of the Bill while supporting other bits of
it.<br><br>
The party says it supports several measures contained within the bill,
including proposals on dangerous driving, increased sentences for
terrorists and other dangerous offenders, a police covenant, reform to
criminal records and closing the loophole to criminalise sexual abuse by
people in positions of trust.<br><br>
The Tories claimed Labour was “voting against tougher sentences for child
murderers, sex offenders, killer drivers”. While Labour is voting against
the Bill at its first hurdle, this characterisation is misleading to the
point of being untrue.<br><br>
Shadow Domestic Violence Minister Jess Phillips responded: “This is a
disgusting and untrue statement. The Conservative Government’s Bill does
absolutely nothing currently to increase sentences for rapists, stalkers,
or those who batter, control and abuse women. It does nothing about
street harassment and assaults.”<br>
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