The defendants all deny charges of conspiracy to hold another person in servitude and conspiracy to require a person to carry out forced or compulsory labour.

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The five relatives were found guilty of conspiracy to require a person to carry out forced or compulsory labour in a trial which finished in December and were given sentences ranging from two-and-a-quarter years to six-and-a-half years.

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The last Labour government similarly legislated for compulsory trade-union recognition in 1975.

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New Labour has succeeded in making compassion compulsory.

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For Labour, Stephen Pound pressed the minister on compulsory redundancies in the armed forces.

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Labour said its policy was to make the subject compulsory to 18.

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Can Labour really sweep away the capping of council budgets and compulsory competitive tendering for local services, and still keep the public finances in order?

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Labour peer Lord Hoyle told peers that 83% of the public supported a compulsory scheme, whilst Liberal Democrat Baroness Parminter argued it would help local authorities deal with the "spiralling costs" costs of kennelling stray dogs.

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