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date	13/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Human Rights Act 1998: British Overseas Territories
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on British Overseas Territories of the repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	6870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>We will consider the implications of our Human Rights reform on the British Overseas Territories as we develop our proposals, and we will fully consult on our proposals.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 20/07/2015 14:06:37 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

386739

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date	30/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Acquittals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will take steps to ensure that the complainants in cases in which a person has been acquitted of a crime do not pursue vexatious civil cases against the person so acquitted.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	4986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has no plans to remove or limit the rights of a claimant to bring a civil claim against a defendant who has been acquitted of an alleged offence based on the same facts. Acquittal of a criminal charge does not rule out civil claims because criminal offences must be proved beyond reasonable doubt, while civil claims are adjudicated on the lesser standard of the balance of probabilities. Rules of court provide adequate protection for acquitted defendants in criminal cases by enabling the court to dismiss unmeritorious claims and, in the case of repeated unmeritorious claims, to ban vexatious litigants from bringing civil proceedings without its permission.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 07/07/2015 15:19:27 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord