Coroners and Justice Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
Coroners and Justice Bill
Debate on bills on Monday, 18 May 2009,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Bach.
The answering
member was Lord Henley.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
710 c1204-302
Session
2008-09
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Coroners and Justice Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 33-EN also published.
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Bills
House of Lords
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Bills
House of Lords
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Bach | 710 c1210 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it was given in a Written Ministerial Statement to this House before the press release; it...
Lord Kingsland | 710 c1210-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister. I was not about to make a constitutional point about t...
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Lord Thomas of Gresford | 710 c1213-7 (Link to this contribution)
So here we are again, my Lords. A sensible reform of the criminal law would be to take a single topi...
Baroness D'Souza | 710 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, on 8 April this year, the High Court in London ordered the release of four Rwandans suspec...
Lord Bach | 710 c1204 (Link to this contribution)
That the Bill be read a second time.
Lord Bach | 710 c1204-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will be the first to admit that this is a wide-ranging Bill, but I make no apology for t...
Lord Kingsland | 710 c1209-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Minister described this Bill to your Lordships’ House as "wide-ranging". We take the v...
Lord Imbert | 710 c1239-40 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I realise that I am but one of the 43 Members of your Lordships’ House who have indicated ...
Lord Patel | 710 c1235-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is a very important Bill, which touches on a wide range of issues relevant to medicin...
Lord Goodlad | 710 c1238-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Patel, I view the Bill with great gravity. My late father, who w...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 710 c1221-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, support this Bill. Of all the public services, the justice system is the one that ...
Lord Waddington | 710 c1223-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in deference to the noble and learned Lord, I will not refer to the Bill as a ragbag, but ...
Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham | 710 c1219-21 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we are faced again with yet another wide-ranging criminal justice measure, which was descr...
Baroness Jay of Paddington | 710 c1233-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have listened with care to those Members of the House who have spoken critically about t...
Baroness Williams of Crosby | 710 c1225-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, one of the great concerns that I have—many people who are currently concerned about the cr...
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 710 c1227-31 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, reform of the coroners’ system is long overdue. I will concentrate my remarks on the first...
Lord Alderdice | 710 c1255-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome a Bill that addresses inadequacies in the coroners service. I am simply struck t...
Baroness Fookes | 710 c1252-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I share with many other speakers my disapproval of the unholy mishmash of provisions in th...
Baroness Stern | 710 c1253-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the contribution of the noble Baroness, Lady Fookes. I re...
Baroness O'Cathain | 710 c1245 (Link to this contribution)
I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lester, for telling me that—I misheard or misunderstood.
...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 710 c1245-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights which has prepare...
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 710 c1248-50 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, when I spoke in the debate on the Queen’s Speech in December last year, I pointed out, as ...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 710 c1250-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Bill raises momentous constitutional, judicial and ethical issues which are being deba...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 710 c1240-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this Bill rightly reopens the debate of what to do about inquests that involve particularl...
Lord Borrie | 710 c1242-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I want to touch on just two parts of the Bill which have not received a lot of attention s...
Baroness O'Cathain | 710 c1244-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, and the noble...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 710 c1245 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry to interrupt, but actually the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, was saying exactly ...
Baroness Warnock | 710 c1276-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this Bill has been called a ragbag, if not a dog’s breakfast. I suppose the items in the B...
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 710 c1274-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Fookes, and the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig, referred to c...
Lord Moran | 710 c1274 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I feel very strongly about the enormous importance of unrestricted freedom of speech in ou...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 710 c1270-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, about a year or so ago when we were involved with the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bil...
Lord Taverne | 710 c1272-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall make a brief comment on the section of the Bill that deals with assisted suicide. ...
Lord Goodhart | 710 c1265-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is yet another elephantine Bill. There is far too much in it; indeed, we have far too...
Lord Craig of Radley | 710 c1268-70 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I should like to draw attention to two issues which the Bill should deal with better. Both...
Lord Ramsbotham | 710 c1261-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as I read through this monster Bill I had an image of a civil servant going round the Mini...
Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 710 c1263-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is partly not to delay unnecessarily the Minister’s reply to the speech that we have ju...
Lord Neill of Bladen | 710 c1258-60 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am the 24th speaker in the batting order, so it is hardly surprising that some of the po...
Lord Turnberg | 710 c1260-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am even lower in the batting order than the noble Lord, Lord Neill of Bladen, so I have ...
Lord Henley | 710 c1291-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Linklater, says that it will be rather difficult for anyone to wi...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 710 c1292 (Link to this contribution)
I did not imply it, my Lords, I said it.
Lord Henley | 710 c1292-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble and learned Lord and the noble Lord, Lord Bach, would find it considerably bette...
Lord Hylton | 710 c1279 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, most of this Bill is well outside my knowledge and experience. However, I know that corone...
Lord Redesdale | 710 c1277-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, many noble Lords have complained that this is a ragtag Bill or a dog’s breakfast, as the n...
Lord Joffe | 710 c1283 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I should like to follow the Minister’s cautionary advice that the Bill is not the place to...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 710 c1280-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, at the beginning of 2008, following the delays in implementing many of the recommendations...
Lord Dholakia | 710 c1283-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we all agree that this is a wide-ranging Bill. At this stage, I will avoid the temptation ...
Baroness Linklater of Butterstone | 710 c1288-91 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, at Third Reading in the House of Commons, much concern was expressed at the lack of adequa...
Viscount Craigavon | 710 c1287-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I would like to focus on the small but important part of the Bill relating to the circumst...
Lord Bach | 710 c1302 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I remember the noble and gallant Lord making that point. I hope that I may write to him wi...
Lord Craig of Radley | 710 c1302 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the Minister sits down, I raised a point about active service and using the definit...
Lord Bach | 710 c1295-302 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this has by and large been a constructive debate and I thank all noble Lords who have take...
Lord Pannick | 710 c1231-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as the Minister mentioned, the Secretary of State for Justice made a Written Statement in ...
Baroness Emerton | 710 c1286-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, like other noble Lords, I would like to speak on one small but none the less important par...
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