HC Deb 24 May 2000 vol 350 cc495-6W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assurances he sought from Mike Tyson that while in the United Kingdom he would refrain

I should emphasise that the issue here is the question of a prosecution right of appeal against adverse rulings made by the judge, which leads to the ending of the trial before the jury has considered the evidence. The question whether, and in what circumstances, a jury's decision on the evidence to acquit can be challenged is the subject of the double jeopardy consideration by the Commission. Both these issues are entirely separate from the prosecution's right of appeal against an unduly lenient sentence after a jury has convicted a defendant.