http://www.newstatesman.com/200608210026
Clive Stafford Smith
"A populist policy will cut paedophiles off from proper supervision and make future crimes virtually inevitable. Where the US leads, the Blair government follows. Gerry Sutcliffe, a Home Office minister, was sent to the US recently by his boss, John Reid, to study Megan's Law with a view to introducing something similar here. Megan's Law, fêted by the tabloids, is a profoundly unwise piece of populism." [Sub Required]
