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Amendment 4 will provide that where regulations under the bill state that specific provisions of building regulations may not be relaxed, ministers may not give directions that would relax those provisions.
Sentences were recalibrated and judges may do that again—they may do so in such a way as to ensure that prisoners spend exactly the same length of time in prison.
Noise disturbance, which might wake up residents along the corridor every night, may not result in loss of value of their homes but may have a very real impact, including the possibility of health problems.
That is perhaps a bit unfair to Douglas Hurd, but that case attracted a lot of opprobrium, which may or may not have been justified.The examples that we have heard have involved applying an awful lot of hindsight.