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  Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill - Clause 151 - Definition of Miscarriages of Justice
  
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  @ MP voted aye to define a miscarriage of justice as being where a new or newly discovered fact shows beyond reasonable doubt that the person "did not commit", rather than "was innocent of", the offence.
  @ MP voted no to define a miscarriage of justice as being where a new or newly discovered fact shows beyond reasonable doubt that the person "was innocent of", rather than "did not commit", the offence.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to define a miscarriage of justice as being where a new or newly discovered fact shows beyond reasonable doubt that the person "did not commit", rather than "was innocent of", the offence.
  
  The motion approved by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment (a) proposed in lieu of Lords amendment 112.
  
  Lords amendment 112[2][3] stated:
  
  :Page 121, line 23, leave out from âshowsâ to â(andâ in line 24 and insert âconclusively that the evidence against the person at trial is so undermined that no conviction could possibly be based on itâ
  
  This would have affected clause 151 of the Bill[4] titled ''Compensation for miscarriages of justice''. Lords amendment 112 would have changed wording of the definition of a miscarriage of justice in that clause from:
  
  
  :if the new or newly discovered fact shows beyond reasonable doubt that the person was innocent of the offence 
  
  to
  
  :if the new or newly discovered fact shows conclusively that the evidence against the person at trial is so undermined that no conviction could possibly be based on it
  
  
  Amendment (a)[4] in lieu which was accepted in this vote stated:
  
  :Page  121,  line  24,  leave out âwas innocent ofâ and insert âdid not commitâ.
  
  There appears to be a proposed change of words, without any change of meaning. Questions as to the impact of the change were raised during the debate.
  
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/antisocialbehaviourcrimeandpolicingbill.html Parliament's webpage on the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill (now an Act)] 
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2013-2014/0163/14163.1-4.html Lords amendments to the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2013-2014/0163/14163.23-27.html Page of Lords amendments to the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill containing amendment 112]
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