Parliamentary search - Coroners and Justice Bill

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714 c380-426

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2008-09

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Ministry of Justice

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Third reading

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Coroners and Justice Bill. Lords amendments. Explanatory Notes Bill 160-EN also published.
Thursday, 5 November 2009
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House of Commons

Coroners and Justice Bill. As amended on Report.
Thursday, 29 October 2009
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Proceeding contributions

Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn | 714 c385-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the Government for their very sympathetic response to these amendments, whic...

Baroness Warnock | 714 c387 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would like to say a few words about the use of the word "property" with regard to auctio...

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Lord Bach | 714 c386-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to the three noble Lords who have spoken, not just for the thanks they ...

Lord Redesdale | 714 c387-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. I, too, noticed the article in the Metro this morn...

Lord Bach | 714 c387 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I certainly agree that it is a matter of great importance, but it would be better on this ...

Lord Bach | 714 c389 (Link to this contribution) 7: Clause 35, page 17, line 19, at end insert— "( ) the number and length of— (i) investigations in ...

Lord Bach | 714 c388-9 (Link to this contribution) 6: After Clause 29, insert the following new Clause— "Duty to notify Coroner for Treasure etc of acq...

Lord Bach | 714 c389-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we return to the powers in paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 for a coroner conducting an investiga...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 714 c390 (Link to this contribution) First, I thank the Minister for seeing a representative of the Coroners’ Society and myself, and, as...

Lord Bach | 714 c391 (Link to this contribution) 9: Clause 35, page 17, line 22, leave out "Schedule 5" and insert "that Schedule" Amendment 9 agree...

Lord Bach | 714 c391 (Link to this contribution) 12: Clause 47, page 25, line 35, at end insert— ""active service" means service in— (a) an action or...

Lord Ramsbotham | 714 c393-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for the amendment he promised on Report and for what is incl...

Lord Ramsbotham | 714 c393 (Link to this contribution) 14: After Clause 49, line 8, at end insert "at the discretion of the coroner"

Lord Bach | 714 c392-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, these amendments would extend the scope of the community legal service in England and Wale...

Lord Bach | 714 c391-2 (Link to this contribution) 13: After Clause 49, insert the following new Clause— "Public funding for advocacy at certain inques...

Lord Bach | 714 c397-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank noble Lords who have spoken, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham. I am duly correct...

Lord Henley | 714 c397 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Government for bringing forward their amendment. We accept that there should b...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c397 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a brief question in support of the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, to...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 714 c395-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for acknowledging the efforts made from these Benches to obt...

Lord Ramsbotham | 714 c398 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister and the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, for their kind words. I l...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c399 (Link to this contribution) 15: After Clause 68, insert the following new Clause— "Slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory l...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c399-400 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at Report stage I accepted in principle the case made powerfully by the noble Baroness, La...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c401 (Link to this contribution) 16: After Clause 70, insert the following new Clause— "Abolition of blasphemy in Northern Ireland Th...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c401 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the point made by the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, about prosecution rates, I hope that h...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c401-3 (Link to this contribution) I should make it clear that I move this amendment not with any intention of dividing the House or, p...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c401 (Link to this contribution) I think that this is admirable. The Minister’s speech is very important and when it is read its impo...

Baroness Young of Hornsey | 714 c400-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Government for introducing this amendment, which corrects a historical anomaly, whereby ...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 714 c401 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Young, on pursuing this so successfully, and I tha...

Earl of Sandwich | 714 c401 (Link to this contribution) As one who supported my noble friend’s original amendment, I thank the Government warmly for this, a...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c381 (Link to this contribution) 1: Clause 1, page 2, line 21, leave out subsections (8) and (9)

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c381-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendments 1, 3 and 7 concern those coroners’ investigations that take more than 12 months...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c382 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I warmly thank the Minister and his department for their thoughtful and helpful response i...

Lord Laird | 714 c380 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her statement. Obviously, under the circumstances I shall w...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 714 c381 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to both noble Lords. I should say to the noble Baroness that there is clear ...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c381 (Link to this contribution) May I have discussions on the issue before we reach that stage in the Bill? We are not deciding it t...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 714 c380 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have it in command from Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c380 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am extremely surprised to hear that news, because it was the clear will of the House to ...

Lord Redesdale | 714 c385 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to speak to the amendments in my name in this group but I shall withdraw them, as t...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 714 c385 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, welcome the amendments tabled by the Government and echo what the noble Lord, Lord...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c383-4 (Link to this contribution) 3: After Clause 17, insert the following new Clause— "Investigations lasting more than a year (1) A ...

Lord Ramsbotham | 714 c383 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as probably the only services representative in the House, I thank the Minister for the am...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 714 c383 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Liberal Democrats supported the noble Baroness, Lady Fookes, in her campaign. We are v...

Lord Henley | 714 c383 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lady Fookes I thank the Government for accepting the principl...

Lord Williamson of Horton | 714 c382 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the Government for the amendment. We took this point very seriously. The Bil...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c382 (Link to this contribution) 2: Clause 14, page 7, line 35, leave out subsection (6)

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c426 (Link to this contribution) 42: In the Title, line 6, after "aid" insert "and about payments for legal services provided in conn...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 714 c422 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall clarify for the House that this is not a matter of filibustering, but of the proce...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 714 c422 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, forgive my absence from the Chamber for the beginning of this very short debate on this am...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 714 c422 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am becoming increasingly confused about the procedure the House is now adopting. I am aw...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c422 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, if I could just complete the statement, I would like to make ...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 714 c421-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it needs to be made clear that my noble friend was endeavouring to make it clear that she ...

Lord Bassam of Brighton | 714 c421 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think the Leader of the House made the position perfectly clear at Question Time. Much a...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c421 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I appreciate what the Leader of the House said just after Question Time. For clarity, I wi...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c421 (Link to this contribution) 27: Schedule 1, page 127, line 30, leave out paragraph 3

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c426 (Link to this contribution) 38: Schedule 23, page 250, line 29, at end insert— Amendment 38 agreed. Amendments 39 to 41 not mo...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 714 c424 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister and the Government for the amendment. Many organisations have pressed...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c424 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment was tabled in response to one tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Thomas, on Rep...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c426 (Link to this contribution) 37: Schedule 22, page 240, line 44, at end insert— "Slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labo...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c425-6 (Link to this contribution) 33: Schedule 21, page 217, line 11, at end insert— "(6) This section has effect subject to section 8...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c423 (Link to this contribution) 29: Schedule 5, page 140, line 3, leave out "in writing" 30: Schedule 5, page 140, line 31, at end...

Lord Colwyn | 714 c423 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Baroness speaks to the amendment, she may not then withdraw it. I must call f...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c423-4 (Link to this contribution) 32: Schedule 21, page 213, line 14, at end insert— "After section 33 insert— "33A Short certificate ...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c423 (Link to this contribution) 31: Schedule 8, page 147, line 18, leave out sub-paragraph (2) Amendment 31 agreed. Schedule 21 : ...

Lord McNally | 714 c423 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think the Front Benches have brought this on themselves because we have been trying to g...

Lord Bach | 714 c411-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, all with a great degree of experti...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 714 c409-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare my interests recorded in the Register of Members’ Interests; in particular, bein...

Lord Henley | 714 c416-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, made clear, the House debated this matter a week ago and c...

Lord Borrie | 714 c415-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall not hide the fact that I would prefer that the Government had withdrawn the whole ...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c412-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister and his advisers for having met me yesterday to discuss...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c412 (Link to this contribution) 19: Clause 154, page 101, line 17, at end insert— "( ) it is a heinous offence, and"

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c408-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare a professional interest, as I have been involved in litigation in an employment ...

Lord Bach | 714 c407-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, these amendments provide for the statutory regulation of damages-based agreements relating...

Lord Bach | 714 c406-7 (Link to this contribution) 18: After Clause 149, insert the following new Clause— Damages-based agreements relating to employme...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c418-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall not go beyond what I said on Report. As the noble Lord, Lord Henley, has pointed o...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c418 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the Minister will not reply to the specific point, I ask: is he saying that he accepts ...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c419 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to everyone who has spoken and to the Minister for his reply. I am not ...

Lord Bach | 714 c421 (Link to this contribution) 24: Clause 176, page 122, line 4, at end insert— "( ) section (Slavery, servitude and forced or comp...

Lord Bach | 714 c420-1 (Link to this contribution) 20: Clause 154, page 101, line 19, leave out "indictable offence" and insert "offence which, if comm...

Lord Bach | 714 c421 (Link to this contribution) 26: Clause 177, page 122, line 41, at end insert— "( ) section (Damages-based agreements relating to...

Lord Monson | 714 c417 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having disagreed with the noble Lord, Lord Lester, on an amendment a while ago, I was comp...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c417-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lester, has proposed an amendment that would limit the scope of the c...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 714 c417 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one can see from the structure of this very unsatisfactory part of the Bill that an applic...

Lord Henley | 714 c403 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at the last stage I made it clear that the view from these Benches was that this was a mat...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 714 c405-6 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to everyone who has spoken, including the Minister, who has now put on record his...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c406 (Link to this contribution) 17: After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause— "Review (1) The Secretary of State must review...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c406 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment makes provision for a statutory review of investigation anonymity orders wit...

Lord Henley | 714 c406 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for moving the amendment. We look forward to the review in a...

Lord Morrow | 714 c403 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to make a few observations on this matter. I have noted that the noble Lord, Lord L...

Lord Monson | 714 c404 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I might make a short observation on the amendment by the noble Lord, Lord Lester. ...

Lord Browne of Belmont | 714 c404 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first I declare that I am a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and noble Lords will ...

Lord Bach | 714 c404-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lester, tabled similar amendments to these on Report to bring about t...

Lord Redesdale | 714 c384 (Link to this contribution) 5: After Clause 27, insert the following new Clause— "Amendment of Treasure Act 1996 After section 8...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 714 c410-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having been a solicitor for some five years and a member of the Bar for too many years, I ...

Lord Bassam of Brighton | 714 c422 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay, for her support in this matter. It ...

Lord Bach | 714 c389 (Link to this contribution) 8: Clause 35, page 17, line 21, at end insert— "( ) the matters recorded under paragraph 3A of Sched...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 714 c381 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment will be called in the usual way. I believe that it is the will of the House ...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 714 c382-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, government Amendments 2, 4, 12 and 31 bring us back to the important issue of investigatio...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 714 c422 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, had my noble friend been allowed to continue, we would now be on the next amendment. I do ...

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Crime

Armed forces

Damages

Blasphemy

Coroners

Advocacy

Legal profession

Finance

Fees and charges

Forced labour

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Right of search

Slavery

Treasure

Death certificates

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Coroners and Justice Bill 2008-09

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