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Amendments along those lines may emerge, and it may be possible to find a more appropriate form of wording, but the intention is as I have just outlined.
The standards of evidence that apply to any crime should apply to cases or charges of false accusation. In many cases, an accused may be found not guilty although he may be guilty, or he may be found not guilty because of a grey area in law.
It would be naive to assume that there will not be winners and losers. It may be unhelpful to call them winners and losers, but that is what the institutions will view them as, so we may as well use those terms.
What can the Prison Service do in that time? The period of imprisonment may be as short as one day, so it is expensive in administrative terms.Some people may accept imprisonment instead of a fine; if they know the system, they may know that it will be for only one night.