I worked in the criminal justice system, at that front line, for about a decade before coming into this House, and I can tell you the reaction at front lines from lawyers, from judges, from probation officers, from all the people that the original three-strikes Act rendered impotent and silent when that law came into effect. It ranged somewhere between embarrassment for the lawmakers who had followed no evidence, who had adopted something so regressive, so perverse, without the knowledge that people felt should have gone into lawmaking, to something like indignation because we were being undermined in that way. This law, when it came into effect, did breach the separation of powers that Westminster systems like ours normally uphold. We as Parliament make law, and the courts interpret and apply them in individual cases. It instead tells the courts and the public who come into contact with the courts that that discretion is gone, that there is no discretion to take account of.