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| | BBC Radio 4's Law in Action was broadcast on Tuesday, 11 July, 2006 at 1600 BST. A strange quirk of the current law means that you can get charged for encouraging a crime that does not happen, when you will not if you assisted in the same crime that does not happen - sounds confusing? The Law Commission have come up with a solution. Dr Jeremy Horder, the Law Commissioner for criminal law, explains.
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