David Norris (Independent)

I wish to point out that the Order Paper is misleading. It states Committee Stage of this Bill resumed at amendment No. 4, but it should be amendment No. 14. I left to make a quick telephone call because I did not realise we had reached this point.

The point I would like to make falls in between sections 14 and 15. Will the Minister consider the possibility of inserting between these sections a new subsection which would state: "Where the defendant relies upon truth as a defence, he or she should be obliged in the pleadings containing the defence to set out the facts upon——