Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2012

Obviously those provisions are of paramount importance, but as I made clear in my opening remarks, the right to a fair trial is also equally important. The second major point made by the noble Lord was on the state of readiness of the police, which goes wider than the matter we are debating today. The noble Lord rightly said that when I introduced these rules, I made it clear that I was confident that that was the case, but before he even asked the question, he wrote down that I had moved from being confident to being satisfied, which formed the basis of the question he put to me. I can give the noble Lord an assurance that I am satisfied that everything is in place as it should be, and that I think the same is true of the police. With that, I hope that the Motion will be agreed. Motion agreed.