Law Commission Bill (HL). Report stage debate. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question and Bill passed with amendment.
Law Commission Bill [Lords]
Debate on bills on Friday, 16 October 2009,
in the House of Commons,
led by Emily Thornberry.
The answering
member was Bridget Prentice.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
497 c581-603 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Law Commission Bill (HL). Brought from the Lords. Explanatory Notes provided by the Ministry of Justice also published as Bill 101-EN.
Monday, 1 June 2009
Bills
House of Commons
Monday, 1 June 2009
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Christopher Chope | 497 c582-3 (Link to this contribution)
I hear my hon. Friend, and in a sense it is incredible that the provision is not already in the Bill...
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Simon Burns | 497 c582 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes an extremely powerful point. Given that, in this day and age, people rightly be...
Simon Burns | 497 c582 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend raises an important point, which, as he is aware, is the nub of the Bill. One thing t...
Christopher Chope | 497 c581 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move amendment 1, page 1, line 4, after 'practicable', insert 'and no later than six months...
Speaker | 497 c581 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Amendment 2, page 1, line 16, leave out f...
Emily Thornberry | 497 c586-7 (Link to this contribution)
I am a pragmatist, and I wish to improve the law. We are all here to make improvements to the law. W...
Christopher Chope | 497 c584-5 (Link to this contribution)
Mr. Deputy Speaker, your predecessor in the Chair was here for a previous debate, to which the Minis...
Christopher Chope | 497 c583-4 (Link to this contribution)
I am not sure that I do, because there is a problem: the Government treat most Law Commission propos...
Christopher Chope | 497 c592-3 (Link to this contribution)
We have almost got dialogue of the deaf—except that I am speaking and nobody seems to want to engage...
Christopher Chope | 497 c590-1 (Link to this contribution)
The amendments have the same intention for clause 2 as the previous amendments relating to clause 1....
Emily Thornberry | 497 c592 (Link to this contribution)
For the reasons that I gave in my speech on earlier amendments, I do not support these ones and I as...
Evan Harris | 497 c588 (Link to this contribution)
indicated dissent.
Speaker | 497 c589-90 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Amendment 5, page 2, line 12, after '(1)'...
Christopher Chope | 497 c588 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is trying to hold a gun to my head by saying, "Because you are sympathetic to the Law ...
Christopher Chope | 497 c587-8 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) for her remark...
Bridget Prentice | 497 c602-3 (Link to this contribution)
I will certainly raise it with the Minister within whose portfolio the Law Commission sits, and I wi...
David Howarth | 497 c598 (Link to this contribution)
The situation is even worse than my hon. Friend describes. The Government gave the Law Commission a ...
Lord Bellingham | 497 c598-9 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) on introducing t...
Lord Bellingham | 497 c599-600 (Link to this contribution)
I assure my hon. Friend that those of us on the Front Bench, watched over with eagle eyes by those i...
Christopher Chope | 497 c599 (Link to this contribution)
I agree very much with my hon. Friend, but can he assure the House that the Opposition are already a...
Bridget Prentice | 497 c601-2 (Link to this contribution)
I should like to add my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbu...
David Howarth | 497 c600-1 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, welcome the Bill on behalf of my party and congratulate the hon. Member for Islington, South...
Speaker | 497 c603 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I am about to put the question. We do not want any obstacles at this late stage.
Christopher Chope | 497 c581 (Link to this contribution)
Amendments 1 and 2 try to introduce a better and tighter definition of when the Bill will take effec...
Christopher Chope | 497 c586 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady's objections to my amendments seem to be procedural rather than substantive. Why does ...
Emily Thornberry | 497 c585-6 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for the support that has been shown both for the Bill and for the Law Commission. It w...
Christopher Chope | 497 c586 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady was in the Chamber during the debate on the Damages (Asbestos-Related Conditions) Bill...
Emily Thornberry | 497 c586 (Link to this contribution)
Those matters have been considered and the Bill has been carefully looked after through both places....
Christopher Chope | 497 c583 (Link to this contribution)
Perhaps the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury is really excited about it.
I told them t...
Philip Davies | 497 c583 (Link to this contribution)
I absolutely agree. Does my hon. Friend agree, therefore, that the thrust of his argument is that th...
Philip Davies | 497 c584 (Link to this contribution)
Will she respond this time?
Emily Thornberry | 497 c593-4 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.
I feel remarkably tired but I am very plea...
Christopher Chope | 497 c594-7 (Link to this contribution)
As is apparent from the debates on the amendments, I am not against the Bill; I just feel that it is...
Evan Harris | 497 c597-8 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) on seeming to ge...
Lord Bellingham | 497 c591 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend not find it somewhat peculiar and disconcerting that this draft protocol has not...
Christopher Chope | 497 c591-2 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a very good point, which draws out of me a few comments on a letter sent to me ...
Lord Bellingham | 497 c592 (Link to this contribution)
The Law Commissions Act 1965 makes it precisely clear what is the relationship between the Law Commi...
Christopher Chope | 497 c588-9 (Link to this contribution)
He leant forward, and I was wondering what he was going to do next. However, he does not want to int...
Christopher Chope | 497 c589 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move amendment 4, page 2, line 12, leave out 'may' and insert 'shall'.
Christopher Chope | 497 c588 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend. We are almost in danger of finding ourselves in a similar situation...
Bridget Prentice | 497 c587 (Link to this contribution)
In support of my hon. Friend's attempt to persuade Opposition Members to withdraw their amendments, ...
Emily Thornberry | 497 c588 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman refers to time scales. I am sure that he is aware, as a result of conversations, ...
Christopher Chope | 497 c602 (Link to this contribution)
I had the opportunity to speak to Sir James Munby since his appointment and I know that he takes thi...
Evan Harris | 497 c598 (Link to this contribution)
Exactly, and I hope that, as the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury said, the report that...
Christopher Chope | 497 c582 (Link to this contribution)
As an experienced parliamentarian, my hon. Friend will know that the title of Lord Chancellor is inc...
Christopher Chope | 497 c592 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for those observations. During my conversation with Mr. Ormerod, he ...
Lord Bellingham | 497 c588 (Link to this contribution)
On the point about the timing of the Bill, and the mechanism used—a private Member's Bill—had the Go...
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