Compensation Bill [Lords]

In clauses 1 and 2 do the Government seek to codify—to put into written statute—the present law? Do the Government seek to take the law as the courts have defined it and put it into an Act of Parliament? If that is the case, there may be merit in that. The Government have a long-term plan which many of us support to codify the law so that people have a clear view about what it stands for.