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May 22, 2012 by Adam Wagner	European Court of Human Rights retreats but doesn’t surrender on prisoner votes
There is another possibility. The Government may put a bill before Parliament by 22 November 2012 but do no more than that. That is, the bill would be presented as a means of satisfying the European Court but not a policy which the Government (or, arguably, the nation) supports. This will almost certainly result in the Bill being defeated, and the court being forced to unfreeze the other claims [update - another option has been suggested by the BBC's Nick Robinson: "It may try to argue that the existing law does not involve a blanket ban since, for example, remand prisoners retain the right to vote." In my view, this would almost certainly result in a further legal challenge].
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