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Compensation Bill (HL)

Debate on bills on Thursday, 8 June 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Bridget Prentice. The answering member was Oliver Heald.
Compensation Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion for proceedings in Committee, on Report and Third reading agreed to on question (formal). Money resolution agreed to on question (formal). Ways and means resolution agreed to on question (formal).
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
447 c419-502 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Compensation Bill (HL) . Brought from Lords. Explanatory notes Bill 155-EN also published.
Monday, 27 March 2006
Bills
House of Commons
Compensation culture and Compensation Culture NHS Redress Bill. Government response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee third and fifth reports session 2005-06 (HC 754 and HC 1009).
Wednesday, 3 May 2006
Command papers
House of Commons
Compensation culture. Constitutional Affairs Select Committee third report in 2 volumes with proceedings, evidence (HC 754 i-v not printed separately) and appendices.
Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Legislative scrutiny : tenth progress report. Human Rights Joint Select Committee twentieth report with proceedings and appendices.
Monday, 22 May 2006
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 447 c467 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr. Speaker has imposed a 15-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches but if hon. Members could re...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c423 (Link to this contribution) One more time, and then I must move on.

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Julian Brazier | 447 c423 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister both for giving way and for the helpful meeting a couple of weeks ago....
Bridget Prentice | 447 c423 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the hon. Gentleman says. The fact that the Bill is going through Parliament will s...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c423 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention.
Bridget Prentice | 447 c422 (Link to this contribution) I will give way once more on this part of the Bill.
Lembit Opik | 447 c422 (Link to this contribution) In the context of what the Minister is saying, it is my understanding as a supporter of clauses 1 an...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c423;447 c422-3 (Link to this contribution) I have sympathy with the hon. Gentleman’s position. I have spoken to voluntary organisations in my c...
Philip Hollobone | 447 c430-1 (Link to this contribution) We would all support the end of cowboy practices in the sector. However, it is important to companie...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c431 (Link to this contribution) The very fact that we are having this discussion demonstrates that the trade unions, voluntary organ...
David Hamilton | 447 c430 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, as she has done many times. Will the code of practice reflect...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c430 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. It is not surprising that Labour Members know and understand that...
Lord Beamish | 447 c430 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) was actually...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c432 (Link to this contribution) I know of the work that my hon. Friend has done on this matter. He has been assiduous in raising the...
Paddy Tipping | 447 c431-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for those helpful points. During her discussion and investigation will...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c431 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point about a tragic, serious case. He knows that the Secret...
Nicholas Brown | 447 c431 (Link to this contribution) I sense that my hon. Friend is drawing her remarks to a close. Before she concludes, can she tell us...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c433;447 c432-3 (Link to this contribution) I take my hon. Friend’s point. I know that counsel and others are looking at the decision and, as I ...
Lord Mann | 447 c433 (Link to this contribution) On the timetable, the Government have a unique agreement with a claims handler, Vendside Ltd, signed...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c433 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. As someone who advocates the rights of the consumer and...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c432 (Link to this contribution) It is not for me to second-guess the discussions of the business managers in the House about how the...
Judy Mallaber | 447 c432 (Link to this contribution) Returning to mesothelioma, I had a very sympathetic response from the Prime Minister at Question Tim...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c433 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend; she has been very generous. On mesothelioma, we have heard a shoppi...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c433-4 (Link to this contribution) We want to look at mesothelioma cases in the round. That is why I have been unable to go as far as I...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c435;447 c434-5 (Link to this contribution) As the Lord Chief Justice said, we cannot encapsulate the common law in one sentence. I can only ass...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c434 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has misunderstood the point that I was making. I said that we should do as the as...
Oliver Heald | 447 c435 (Link to this contribution) It explains to that person exactly what the law is, excluding the common misconceptions that might h...
Julian Brazier | 447 c435 (Link to this contribution) As for the Tomlinson case, the plain fact is that the lower courts have not responded in the way tha...
Oliver Heald | 447 c435 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is at cross purposes with me on this matter. Is he seriously saying that we shoul...
Lord Beith | 447 c435 (Link to this contribution) Is it the hon. Gentleman’s view that clause 1 gives to a volunteer leader or a scout master any lega...
John Greenway | 447 c436 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think that some clearer definition of what ““desirable activity”” means will be ...
Oliver Heald | 447 c435 (Link to this contribution) It may be that there are cases that have been decided and have received a good deal of public attent...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c436 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Oliver Heald | 447 c436 (Link to this contribution) I think that I have given way sufficiently to the hon. Gentleman.
Lembit Opik | 447 c436 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that there has been considerable consultation with many voluntary o...
Oliver Heald | 447 c436 (Link to this contribution) I agree. There is no doubt that we are getting to the point where we need clause 1, which is a clear...
Tony Lloyd | 447 c436 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has said that he, on behalf of the Opposition, is looking constructively to impro...
Speaker | 447 c436 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) responds, we are in danger of...
Oliver Heald | 447 c436-7 (Link to this contribution) The Bill tries to deal with the way in which the law of negligence operates, as the hon. Member for ...
Michael Clapham | 447 c437 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman therefore in favour of a no-fault liability scheme financed by the insurers an...
Oliver Heald | 447 c436 (Link to this contribution) My view is that the courts are capable of deciding what is or is not a ““desirable activity””. The e...
Oliver Heald | 447 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has got the facts wrong. The main liability does not fall on the insurers but on ...
Oliver Heald | 447 c438 (Link to this contribution) What people think is important, too. In ““The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance””, it was said once a fac...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c438 (Link to this contribution) I am loth to accept tabloids as a guide to what is happening in the law courts, because they rarely ...
Oliver Heald | 447 c440 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman asks around among his trade union friends, he will find that many of them woul...
Oliver Heald | 447 c439-40 (Link to this contribution) The matter needs to be reviewed but, given that the Bill deals with the civil aspects of compensatio...
Jeremy Wright | 447 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks about risk aversion in the context of civil negligence claims. He will know th...
Oliver Heald | 447 c438 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, and we all look forward to his speech. Excessive risk aver...
Julian Brazier | 447 c438 (Link to this contribution) It is not inconsistent on the one hand to accept the fact that there is not a general compensation c...
Oliver Heald | 447 c438 (Link to this contribution) I know that this is not popular in the Cambridge law faculty, but we can deal with the problem by ac...
David Howarth | 447 c438 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman began by accepting that in reality there was not such a problem, as the number of...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c424 (Link to this contribution) I will, but I should like to develop the case for regulating claims management.
Bridget Prentice | 447 c424 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. I am sorry that I did not bring with me an unsolicited letter that I receive...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c424 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman anticipates a later part of my speech. If he will allow me, I shall deal with tra...
Judy Mallaber | 447 c424 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that providing services to the membership of an organisation such as a tra...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c423-4 (Link to this contribution) I really must move on. Part 2 of the Bill sets out a scheme to regulate claims management services....
Oliver Heald | 447 c424 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady knows, one of the largest groups of claims farmers are trade unions, which make the...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c423 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with the premise of my hon. Friend’s question. From time to time, it is a good thing for ...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c423 (Link to this contribution) Does not what my hon. Friend said in response to the previous intervention defeat her own argument? ...
Lord Beamish | 447 c425-6 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is important that claims handlers who sell after-the-event insuran...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c426 (Link to this contribution) I shall not comment on the individual company that my hon. Friend mentions as I do not know the deta...
Lord Beith | 447 c426 (Link to this contribution) Is it not time that we knew what the Government’s preferred option is, given that the clause allows ...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c426-7 (Link to this contribution) I could hardly have handed the right hon. Gentleman the question, but the next line in my speech is:...
Oliver Heald | 447 c427 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not understand that many of us are extremely disappointed that it is not a well es...
John Redwood | 447 c424 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Does she yet have in mind a body that would act as reg...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c425 (Link to this contribution) We want to capture people who abuse the system and who do not give consumers all the information the...
Philip Hollobone | 447 c425 (Link to this contribution) National Accident Helpline is based in my constituency and has a strong reputation in the field. The...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c429 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly welcome part 2 of the Bill, unlike part 1. As a former trade union solicitor, I thi...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c428 (Link to this contribution) Amazingly, my hon. Friend again brings me to my next point. He is quite right about not-for-profit o...
Oliver Heald | 447 c429 (Link to this contribution) I welcomed the second half of the sentence. Does the Minister not accept that there is concern that ...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c429 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes his point well. I should tell the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr...
Simon Hughes | 447 c427 (Link to this contribution) I was smiling at the picture of the Lord Chancellor, as he gives up his speakership of the Lords, be...
Tony Lloyd | 447 c428 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that, as with solicitors and voluntary organisations, trade unions provid...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c428 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. We are all aware of some of the atrocious behaviour that ha...
Michael Clapham | 447 c427-8 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend ensure that the people who are going to be involved in the regulation liaise wit...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c427 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has got things absolutely right. This is intended to be an interim solution. In a...
David Jones | 447 c420 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Lady has to say, but does not clause 1 go further than that by requiring the cl...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c419-20 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I am pleased that, after much debate and di...
Paddy Tipping | 447 c421 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Minister for being willing to debate the phrase ““desirable acti...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c421 (Link to this contribution) There is a straightforward answer to that question. No. It is not our intention to do that.
Bridget Prentice | 447 c421-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You have rightly led us towards the way in which we should conduct th...
Speaker | 447 c421 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the Minister answers, may I take up the point made by the hon. Member for Sherwood (Pa...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c422 (Link to this contribution) It is not my wish to enter into a debate on the merits of common law and case law versus codificatio...
Simon Hughes | 447 c422 (Link to this contribution) In clauses 1 and 2 do the Government seek to codify—to put into written statute—the present law? Do ...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c420 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my hon. Friend might offer a definition of desirable activity as it is a new concept in comm...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c420 (Link to this contribution) No. The hon. Gentleman is putting more into clause 1 than is actually there. Clause 1 provides that,...
David Howarth | 447 c421 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept that the Government’s intention is not to alter the law but to maintain it as announc...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c420-1 (Link to this contribution) The view that was expressed in the Tomlinson v. Congleton ruling, which is the most recent case, as ...
Nicholas Brown | 447 c441 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating my hon. Friend the Minister on her introduction to the Bill. One of the gr...
Oliver Heald | 447 c440-1;447 c440 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to get into a long argument on that. I have had a good go on it. It is certainly said ...
Nicholas Brown | 447 c443 (Link to this contribution) I should emphasise that the report that I quoted applies to England and Wales, but it is not beyond ...
David Hamilton | 447 c443 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is talking about the ombudsman for England and Wales. Will he encourage the Min...
Oliver Heald | 447 c443 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right to say that there have been scandals about the way in which solici...
Nicholas Brown | 447 c441 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is correct to say that organisations that refer cases to solicitors are regulated...
Oliver Heald | 447 c441 (Link to this contribution) One of the groups regulated under the Bill is organisations that refer cases to solicitors. Unions d...
Tony Lloyd | 447 c442 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right to say that no Labour Member would want any union to operate as a clai...
Speaker | 447 c444 (Link to this contribution) Order. We cannot have interventions from a sedentary position, and I have a feeling that this argume...
Nicholas Brown | 447 c444 (Link to this contribution) There is regulation. The hon. Gentleman makes an anti-trade union point, which is not uncommon among...
Nicholas Brown | 447 c443 (Link to this contribution) Nothing. The relationship is different. Trade unions must adhere to the code of practice that the Mi...
Simon Hughes | 447 c445 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East and Wallsend (Mr. Bro...
Nicholas Brown | 447 c445 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I cannot. I am running out of time. My plea to the House, and to the Government in ...
Oliver Heald | 447 c445 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Nicholas Brown | 447 c444-5 (Link to this contribution) Those are my thoughts precisely, Mr. Deputy Speaker. However, I would like to say a little about whe...
Simon Hughes | 447 c446 (Link to this contribution) The official Opposition must answer for themselves, but the hon. Gentleman has our assurance that ou...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 447 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall deal with that point in a moment. We should not forget that unions are constantly working to...
David Howarth | 447 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) I should start by declaring an interest, in that I still receive the occasional royalty for the book...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 447 c487 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend and agree that, of course, the primary activity of trade unions is to provide...
Oliver Heald | 447 c487 (Link to this contribution) We all agree that trade unions do a useful job, but is the hon. Lady seriously trying to justify wha...
Julian Brazier | 447 c490 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that these cases do not occur only occasionally; the problem is that they keep on arisin...
Julian Brazier | 447 c489 (Link to this contribution) Again, the hon. Gentleman is confusing the issue of an overall compensation culture with the specifi...
David Howarth | 447 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting point, which would benefit from further research. It is difficult to know wha...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c491 (Link to this contribution) The problem is not so much the HSE but the health and safety industry, which perpetuates the myths a...
David Howarth | 447 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree that leaflets would be very useful, but I cannot see what extra good having a new clause pro...
Oliver Heald | 447 c490 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that combining the new declaration in clause 1 with the provision ...
David Howarth | 447 c490 (Link to this contribution) I was about to come to the point about signals. The claimed benefit of the clause is that it sends a...
David Howarth | 447 c491 (Link to this contribution) That is right, but the HSE does do some rather odd things in terms of its targets. The insurance in...
Derek Wyatt | 447 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) I have sent my apologies for not being here for the Minister’s opening remarks. I want to register t...
Lord Beamish | 447 c492-5 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support strongly this important and long overdue Bill. In particular, I want to direct my ...
David Anderson | 447 c496-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a long time since we came in here. I was going to mention part 1, but I will not now, except t...
Nick Ainger | 447 c498-9 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate. We have covered a range of issues, not necessarily all directly...
Oliver Heald | 447 c499 (Link to this contribution) One concern is that it is not only insurers but the Government, too, who have substantial liabilitie...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c500 (Link to this contribution) A few moments ago, my hon. Friend said that the interpretation of the phrase ““desirable activity”” ...
Nick Ainger | 447 c499-500 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. Other Departments have, or will have, significant liabilities, but the ...
David Howarth | 447 c500 (Link to this contribution) The point we are trying to make is that there will be more appeals, and more cases forced to trial r...
Nick Ainger | 447 c500 (Link to this contribution) Every court that has to settle a claim will have to decide on the facts. The provision will not incr...
Nick Ainger | 447 c501 (Link to this contribution) I have covered the point that my hon. Friend made in his speech. The hon. Member for Rugby and Keni...
Nick Ainger | 447 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes his case very well. The concept that we have sought to capture by the term...
Nick Ainger | 447 c500 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that point, but the Government do not take that view. I am sure that the matter will be...
Julian Brazier | 447 c500 (Link to this contribution) The point that the splendid legal adviser to the scouts, Andrew Caplan, made to us is not only that ...
David Howarth | 447 c451 (Link to this contribution) The central point here is, was the law unclear before? Was it unclear after Tomlinson? Was it even u...
Tony Lloyd | 447 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) I am not suggesting that the hon. Gentleman is wrong about that, but he knows that that is not what ...
Julian Brazier | 447 c454 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman in making his ...
Tony Lloyd | 447 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) I begin by welcoming the consensual tone of the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simo...
Oliver Heald | 447 c453 (Link to this contribution) I thought that it was common knowledge that trade unions are paid a referral fee when they send a ca...
Michael Clapham | 447 c455 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend emphasises the urgency of this matter. Another factor is that claimants cannot now cl...
Tony Lloyd | 447 c455 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I pay tribute to his long and consistent campaign on this is...
Speaker | 447 c454 (Link to this contribution) The matter is under investigation and I hope that it will be sorted out soon.
Tony Lloyd | 447 c454 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to know that I am not the irritating noise. We need the Barker judgment to be revers...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c446 (Link to this contribution) There is another reason for the matter to be dealt with urgently. The Barker case did not end the st...
Simon Hughes | 447 c446-7 (Link to this contribution) I understand that, which is why I think that we should cut the knot. The matter is before the courts...
Paddy Tipping | 447 c447 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that this is an issue in coalfield communities and for textile worker...
Simon Hughes | 447 c447-9 (Link to this contribution) I represent people who worked in the docks and who lived in the old dock-worker community—although p...
Oliver Heald | 447 c449 (Link to this contribution) Did you ask, ““Are you my constituent?””
Simon Hughes | 447 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman, who also once fought the North Southwark and Bermondsey seat, says, that was ...
Simon Hughes | 447 c451 (Link to this contribution) I understand that, which is why I am more sympathetic to clause 1 than my right hon. Friend the Memb...
Oliver Heald | 447 c451 (Link to this contribution) I do not mean to trespass on the hon. Gentleman’s good will, but does he agree that we quite often d...
Simon Hughes | 447 c451 (Link to this contribution) And that is why I have not said that I am wholeheartedly opposed to seeking to get this right. But i...
Julian Brazier | 447 c471 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and I will explain why in a moment. I am clear that clause 1 does change the law. Judge Tetlow...
Lord Beith | 447 c470;447 c471 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that that claim would have failed if clause 1 had been enforced?
Julian Brazier | 447 c469-70 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill, especially clauses 1 and 2. I too congratulate Lord Hunt on his handling of the ...
Paddy Tipping | 447 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) I am making it clear to the Minister that I will be satisfied only if the secondary legislation and ...
Oliver Heald | 447 c468 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, I am concerned about this point as well. Solicitors, for example, are a...
Paddy Tipping | 447 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in support of the Bill. Claims handlers have been describ...
Lord Beith | 447 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will refer later to one or two cases which do not even appear in t...
Julian Brazier | 447 c466 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way once more. He took evidence in his Committe...
Lord Beith | 447 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) It is not an extra defence. Indeed, the Government differ from the hon. Gentleman, because they have...
Julian Brazier | 447 c465 (Link to this contribution) I have heard that argument several times. Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why providing an extr...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c461-3 (Link to this contribution) I cannot, because we are on a time limit—[Interruption.] I have given way already. Of course we wan...
Julian Brazier | 447 c461 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Beith | 447 c463-5 (Link to this contribution) The Register of Members’ Interests contains a reference to an interest that I have in the holiday pa...
Paddy Tipping | 447 c459;447 c460 (Link to this contribution) The Minister made it clear that there would be other cases before the court to test that out. Rather...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c461 (Link to this contribution) I cannot, because I am on a time limit. I suspect that the roots of the clause lie in the private M...
Speaker | 447 c455 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, and in response to the point of order raised by Mr. Brazier, ...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest, as I was a personal injury lawyer for 20 years before I became a Member. I wo...
John Greenway | 447 c455-8 (Link to this contribution) First, I remind colleagues of my entry in the Register of Members’ Interests. In warmly welcoming th...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 447 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill, as it tries to stem the development of a compensation culture and deal with risk...
David Anderson | 447 c487 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the main drive from trade unions is against a compensation culture? W...
David Jones | 447 c486 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The House has an opportunity to give the courts clear, unequivocal guidance about how they s...
Lord Deben | 447 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) The provision would need to be much wider than my hon. Friend suggests. A farmer in my village used ...
Jeremy Wright | 447 c477-9 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as a non-practising barrister, although not in the field of personal injury or...
Michael Clapham | 447 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal with that point. The right hon. Gentleman may not be aware that, as my hon. Friend the M...
Lord Beith | 447 c476 (Link to this contribution) I have great respect for the hon. Gentleman’s work, but he cannot escape the fact that, in respect o...
Chris Bryant | 447 c486 (Link to this contribution) What does the hon. Gentleman mean by ““desirable””?
David Jones | 447 c484-6 (Link to this contribution) I wish to declare an interest as a member of the Law Society. Like Members on both sides of the Hous...
Lord Mann | 447 c480-4 (Link to this contribution) I intend to ask a number of questions of the Minister and the House, and I hope that people will tak...
Jeremy Wright | 447 c480 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who makes a valid point. Part of the difficulty is that the H...
Oliver Heald | 447 c475 (Link to this contribution) The firm of solicitors involved in the case was Raleys, and the NUM apparently took £10 million out ...
Michael Clapham | 447 c475-6 (Link to this contribution) As I said, there is a clear distinction between trade unions and claims farmers. The solicitor in th...
Michael Clapham | 447 c474 (Link to this contribution) It was the solicitors who were at fault, not the union. Trade unions and their legal services have w...
Julian Brazier | 447 c471 (Link to this contribution) I half agree with the hon. Gentleman. Without exception, all the cases have come from the last 12 or...
David Howarth | 447 c471 (Link to this contribution) First, for Lord Goodhart’s sake, will the hon. Gentleman place in the Library the documentation he h...
Julian Brazier | 447 c472-4 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. Let me give details of a second case, from a large dossier; the Gaping Gill incident. In s...
Lembit Opik | 447 c472 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is evident that the individuals in the case he mentioned were ...
Oliver Heald | 447 c474 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman about claims farmers, but I know that he is a member of the National...
Michael Clapham | 447 c474 (Link to this contribution) I shall confine my remarks to part 2 of the Bill. I take on board what my hon. Friend the Member for...
Michael Clapham | 447 c474 (Link to this contribution) I cannot justify the fact that the solicitors to which the hon. Gentleman has referred did not provi...
John Greenway | 447 c432 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has been extremely generous with her time, and I was reluctant to intervene, except tha...
Oliver Heald | 447 c434 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to support me in saying that we need education, but wrong to say that we...
Nicholas Brown | 447 c442-3 (Link to this contribution) I am reasonably certain that the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire was more enthusiastic abou...
Tony Lloyd | 447 c445-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his clear statement of the Liberal Democrats’ position. Disa...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c424-5 (Link to this contribution) I point out gently to the right hon. Gentleman and to other colleagues that if they allow me to deve...
Julian Brazier | 447 c450 (Link to this contribution) The problem with the excellent Tomlinson judgment was that it related specifically to a very reckles...
Andrew Dismore | 447 c460-1 (Link to this contribution) Exactly—my hon. Friend is right. We will have a plethora of cases interpreting the provision. The co...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c430 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Labour Members understand the role of trade unions in looking af...
Oliver Heald | 447 c434 (Link to this contribution) We are all grateful to the Minister for setting out the details of the Bill and it aims. It was the ...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c427 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to be the only person in the House who does not know that neither the OFT n...
Bridget Prentice | 447 c429 (Link to this contribution) Quite frankly, I will leave the last part of the hon. Gentleman’s comments for my hon. Friends to di...
Helen Goodman | 447 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support the Bill, because I believe that an increasingly litigious culture is destroying ...
Simon Hughes | 447 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend will not like the answer to that question. I take the view that if it is...
Subjects
Complaints
Compensation
Consumers
Accountability
Courts
Companies
Advisory services
Fees and charges
Liability
Exemptions
Legal opinion
Marketing
Negligence
Voluntary organisations
Regulation
Trade unions
Voluntary work
Claims management services
Legislation
Compensation Bill (HL) 2005-06
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