HC Deb 15 December 1978 vol 960 c583W
Mr. Fairbairn

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will seek to make it an offence for any person to offer an inducement, whether financial or otherwise, to a defendant in return for making an application to lift reporting restrictions at a committal hearing under the terms of section 3(2) of the Criminal Justice Act.

Mr. Merlyn Rees:

I have no present plans to introduce legislation of this nature.