UK bills don't tend to use a fake cursive font, they don't tend to have common language like "Greetings!", there is no court at Sandringham that I have heard of, and the bill to pardon Mr Turing is not through its full process in the house of commons.
Apparently there's a difference between a Royal Pardon and a Statutory Pardon. Parliament would have been debating the latter; this is the former (which the government had previously ruled out), it seems.
This isn't a UK bill. This is a pardon in the form of letters patent coming from the Queen. The form, "To all whom these Presents come, Greetings!" is pretty common in letters patent. There may not be a normal court in Sandringham, but this isn't coming from a normal court. It's coming from the Royal Court, which takes on the name of wherever the Sovereign is in residence. In this, the Queen is staying at Sandringham, so that's where the Royal Court is.
You're right; I thought they had already done the second reading, but it was a reading in the House of Lords instead.
That said, the Parliament website is fantastic. The US sites are getting better, but the overall flow for public bills in the UK's site is so much nicer.
Edit: the original schedule looks like it was altered after MP Christopher Chope raised an objection.
This demeans the word 'apology'. It's bereft of meaning and viciously partisan to the extent that I find it disgusting in view of the many who've suffered and are now dead and unremembered. Pity energy wasn't better spent in further public explication of his significance and achievements.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 60.9 ms ] threadI have to say I feel uneasy about this whole thing, I'd be much happier if we pardoned everyone prosecuted under the same law.
UK bills don't tend to use a fake cursive font, they don't tend to have common language like "Greetings!", there is no court at Sandringham that I have heard of, and the bill to pardon Mr Turing is not through its full process in the house of commons.
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/alanturingstatut...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_patent#Form_of_British_...
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/alanturingstatut...
That said, the Parliament website is fantastic. The US sites are getting better, but the overall flow for public bills in the UK's site is so much nicer.
Edit: the original schedule looks like it was altered after MP Christopher Chope raised an objection.