Employment Bill [HL]

My Lords, is not the position that in the bad old days it was left to the courts to deal with abuses of trade union power—for example, those old, terrible cases such as Breen v AEU and Edwards v SOGAT? In 1992, a different Government introduced legislation to give protection against arbitrary power, which went too far. Now we have to modify that. Is the real position that the 1992 Act was a reforming Act dealing with an abuse?