The model comes from the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 and the ASBOs in the Crime and Disorder Act. There is much work to be done in this regard. It would produce a degree of doubt in courts' minds. We should end up sadly and ironically doing damage to those whom we had hoped to protect. We need to make the criminal law work and, above all, to make it flexible.
Criminals use new tools and devices.
Plainly, on the face of it that involves the sense of rape in any event. I am grateful that this matter has been brought forward today. It has certainly not been put to sleep on the top shelf. I hope that my explanation, which was longer than I would have intended normally, has proved a comfort to the noble Baroness and to the noble Lord, Lord Phillips. I am grateful to the noble Lord for the scrupulous way in which he put that question.