Courts and Tribunals Bill (Second sitting) - 25th March 2026

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Courts and Tribunals Bill (Second sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-03-25/debates/36E6DC63-F10C-4E0D-A74E-FFF92FBA2686/CourtsandTribunalsBillSecondsitting

Sarah Sackman (Labour)

Most of these acquittals have involved a jury going, “Hang on a second. I’ve listened to the evidence over a week or two, and I’m satisfied that these people took action because they were desperate and felt that there was no option for getting the truth into the public domain to counter the disinformation of”—for example—“the fossil fuel companies.” Those jury acquittals then send an important signal to politicians that when the public actually get good information—let’s say about the nature of the climate emergency—they are shocked at Government inaction. Those acquittals are meaningful in a profound way, and we will not have them any more. It will just be guilty, guilty, guilty.

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