Parliamentary search - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

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2010-12

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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. As amended in committee.
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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Deposited Paper DEP2012-0490
Thursday, 15 March 2012
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Legislative scrutiny: Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. Human Rights Joint Select Committee twenty-second report with formal minutes and written evidence.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Parliamentary committees
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House of Commons

Constitution Select Committee (HL) twenty-first report on Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
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Proceeding contributions

Lord Bach | 736 c92-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House will remember that we had a robust debate on this issue in Committee and some va...

Lord Bach | 736 c92 (Link to this contribution) 74C: Schedule 1, page 141, line 3, at end insert— ““Unfair dismissal 1 (1) Civil legal services prov...

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Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 736 c88-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for her contribution to this debate and for sha...

Lord McNally | 736 c86-8 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Clinton-Davis, was always known for his impetuosity. I pay tribute to the nobl...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 736 c95 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have spoken on this issue several times in the course of the discussion on the Bill. I s...

Lord Faulks | 736 c95 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a young barrister I had quite a lot of experience of going to employment tribunals. It ...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 736 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) I follow my noble friend on this issue. I apologise for confusing the amendments in the previous deb...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c78-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Bach, as indicated by many contributors to thi...

Lord Boswell of Aynho | 736 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened with interest to this debate as a lay person who has not been much engaged...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c80-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are not proposing to abandon the regime. As the noble Lord, Lord Bach, pointed out, imm...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 736 c80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister acknowledge that part of the reason for introducing the Office of the Im...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 736 c84 (Link to this contribution) 74A: Schedule 1, page 141, line 3, at end insert— ““Debt management and relief or remedy Civil legal...

Lord Bach | 736 c81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who spoke in this important debate, and not least to...

Baroness Coussins | 736 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support Amendments 74A and 74B, to which my name has been added. I declare an interest a...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 736 c84-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 74A and 74B about legal aid for debt, and in so doing I decl...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 736 c86 (Link to this contribution) I will not follow the noble Baroness because she made an unanswerable case. I support her 100 per ce...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 736 c86 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry.

Lord Borrie | 736 c75 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the House was today being given a choice between the amendment proposed by my noble fri...

Baroness Hamwee | 736 c74-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like others, I have been aware of the paradox that some senior lawyers have commented on t...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 736 c73-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall concentrate on the issue of trafficking, which noble Lords will have heard me ment...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 736 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may intervene briefly and almost reluctantly, because, having been rather rebell...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 736 c72 (Link to this contribution) I will not detain the House for long, but recall only too well the situation posed when I was an MP ...

Lord Pannick | 736 c71-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment. I am concerned that in the Minister's letter dated 1 March to all...

Lord Bach | 736 c69-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at 29 minutes to seven of the evening, I move my Amendment 74, and it is a great pleasure ...

Lord Bach | 736 c69 (Link to this contribution) 74: Schedule 1, page 140, line 8, leave out from ““Kingdom”” to end of line 39

Lord Woolf | 736 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, rightly, we have heard a lot about victims so far in this debate and, if this amendment is...

Lord Judd | 736 c76 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble and learned Lord has reminded us very powerfully of the damage that can be done ...

Lord Avebury | 736 c77 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may mention one point which has not been raised so far. I refer to the effect of...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c147-8 (Link to this contribution) I think it was Champerty rather than maintenance where a third party takes a chunk of the damages th...

Lord McNally | 736 c145-7 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord did say that we were allowed to change our mind. The power at subsection (3) is not ...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c145 (Link to this contribution) That was a quick decision, if I may respectfully say so.

Lord McNally | 736 c145 (Link to this contribution) It will remain negative.

Lord McNally | 736 c148 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for the last time I make a solemn promise to the House that I covered the amendment in a l...

Lord McNally | 736 c148 (Link to this contribution) 118: Clause 25, page 21, line 3, at end insert— ““(6A) Regulations may provide that an individual is...

Lord McNally | 736 c148 (Link to this contribution) 109: Clause 24, page 19, line 18, leave out ““for”” and insert ““to”” 110: Clause 24, page 19, lin...

Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 736 c134 (Link to this contribution) 101A: After Clause 11, insert the following new Clause— ““Report reviewing claims for clinical negli...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c136-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 101A seeks to provide for the possibility of a wholesale independent review of c...

Lord Bach | 736 c136 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are grateful that the noble Lord, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, and his co-signatories have...

Lord Beecham | 736 c132 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a straightforward amendment that deals with the question of creating a right of ap...

Lord Beecham | 736 c133 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if there is no intention at any stage to provide for appeals to a court, tribunal or other...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c133 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, has indicated, the amendment would require regulations to...

Lord Bach | 736 c137 (Link to this contribution) 102: Clause 12, page 8, line 35, leave out subsection (2)

Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 736 c137 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, to say that I am disappointed in that response is, I am afraid, an inadequate estimate. Th...

Lord Bach | 736 c137-8 (Link to this contribution) I can be fairly brief here, as the Minister made an important concession in Committee by saying that...

Lord Bach | 736 c140 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the noble Lord. On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendme...

Lord McNally | 736 c140 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think it would worry me as well. I will reflect on what the noble Lord has said and writ...

Lord Bach | 736 c140 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, given the time of night, I will obviously withdraw the amendment. I thank the Minister for...

Lord McNally | 736 c139 (Link to this contribution) I take the point entirely. I will try again to say that Amendment 103 fulfils the commitment that I ...

Lord Beecham | 736 c139 (Link to this contribution) Would the Minister acknowledge that it does not necessarily follow that he has to speak for 17 or 25...

Lord Bach | 736 c138 (Link to this contribution) Was that the incredibly persuasive speech that lasted 11 lines before the Minister interrupted his n...

Lord McNally | 736 c138 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will try to help the noble Lord. I do not think there is anything sinister in this, and ...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c140 (Link to this contribution) 105A: Clause 20, page 15, line 14, at end insert— ““( ) For the purposes of subsection (1), ““financ...

Lord McNally | 736 c140 (Link to this contribution) 103: Clause 12, page 8, line 37, leave out subsection (3) 104: Clause 12, page 9, line 26, at end ...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c141 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 105A is in substitution for Amendment 105, which was drafted in identical terms ...

Lord McNally | 736 c116-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 90 would have the effect of making legal aid available for services to support s...

Lord McNally | 736 c118 (Link to this contribution) 91: Schedule 1, page 148, leave out lines 38 and 39 and insert ““, except as follows— (a) those serv...

Lord Beecham | 736 c118 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord will expect me to express my disappointment at that conclusion, in my understanding o...

Lord McNally | 736 c118 (Link to this contribution) 92: Schedule 1, page 150, line 2, leave out ““paragraph 25”” and insert ““paragraphs 25 or 25A””. A...

Lord McNally | 736 c118 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, again, this is a technical amendment, of which I sent noble Lords details. It is a minor t...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c118-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have finally clawed our way out of Schedule 1 and back into the body of the Bill to mee...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c118 (Link to this contribution) 93: Clause 9, page 6, line 20, at end insert ““, or ““(c) that it is in the interest of justice gene...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 736 c122-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment, as well as Amendments 93A and 94, particularly in relation to imm...

Lord Avebury | 736 c119-22 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when we were discussing the first amendment this afternoon it was said that some immigrati...

Lord Judd | 736 c123-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this debate relates to one that we had earlier, when there was that magnificent and to be ...

Lord Bach | 736 c125-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is absurd that we are debating such a crucial set of amendments as this at 10.15 in the...

Baroness Hamwee | 736 c124-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support, in particular, Amendment 93, to which my noble friend Lord Thomas has spoken. N...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c131-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the comforting sayings at the Bar, which I have found over 50 years to be absolutel...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c131 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness acknowledged that I referred to some of the issues about unaccompanied children, ...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 736 c131 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on unaccompanied children, I accept the point that social workers will not be expected to ...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c126-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, notwithstanding the hour—a point made by the noble Lord, Lord Bach—I agree with him that t...

Lord Beecham | 736 c132 (Link to this contribution) 100: Clause 11, page 8, line 25, leave out ““may”” and insert ““must””

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c132 (Link to this contribution) 99: Clause 10, page 7, line 30, after second ““the”” insert ““form of”” Amendment 99 agreed. Claus...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c132 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is another minor and technical amendment designed to correct a drafting inconsistency...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c132 (Link to this contribution) 98: Clause 10, page 7, line 29, leave out from ““which”” to ““could”” and insert ““more than one for...

Lord McNally | 736 c114 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a technical amendment to the drafting of paragraph 40 in Part 1 of Schedule 1. I h...

Lord McNally | 736 c114 (Link to this contribution) 81: Schedule 1, page 147, line 36, after ““to”” insert ““a claim in tort in respect of”” 82: Sched...

Lord McNally | 736 c114 (Link to this contribution) 86: Schedule 1, page 148, line 8, leave out from beginning to second ““a””

Lord McNally | 736 c113 (Link to this contribution) 79: Schedule 1, page 147, line 18, at end insert— ““Terrorism prevention and investigation measures ...

Lord McNally | 736 c113 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with this amendment we intend to extend the scope of civil legal aid in Schedule 1 to incl...

Lord Beecham | 736 c113-4 (Link to this contribution) Without prejudice to one's views about the change from control orders to TPIMs, I can give an unqual...

Lord McNally | 736 c114 (Link to this contribution) 80: Schedule 1, page 147, line 25, leave out paragraphs (a) and (b) and insert— ““(a) the exclusions...

Lord Bach | 736 c108-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we agree with the amendments in this group. In Committee, the noble Lord, Lord Avebury, sa...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c109-12 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Avebury explained in moving this amendment, Amendments 77A, 77B, 7...

Lord Avebury | 736 c112-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Whitaker and Lady Turner, for their contr...

Lord Beecham | 736 c116 (Link to this contribution) 90: Schedule 1, page 148, line 32, leave out paragraph 16

Lord Beecham | 736 c116 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when we considered this issue in Committee, I pointed out that the scheme for criminal inj...

Lord McNally | 736 c116 (Link to this contribution) 87: Schedule 1, page 148, line 9, leave out ““the authority”” and insert ““a public authority to the...

Lord Bach | 736 c116 (Link to this contribution) 88: Schedule 1, page 148, line 23, leave out paragraph 15 Amendment 88 agreed. Amendment 89 not mo...

Baroness Hamwee | 736 c115 (Link to this contribution) I, too, shall read the Minister's reply with interest. Is he satisfied that there would not be other...

Lord McNally | 736 c115-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that we can all reflect. I will respond to my noble friend after such reflection. Amendment...

Lord McNally | 736 c115 (Link to this contribution) No, I fully appreciate the noble Lord's position. We are aware that the current wording in paragraph...

Lord Beecham | 736 c115 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Lord.

Lord McNally | 736 c114 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendments 86 and 87 are technical amendments to the drafting of the exclusion for damages...

Lord Beecham | 736 c114-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hesitate to ask for a longer explanation, but perhaps a slightly longer explanation woul...

Lord Bach | 736 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, once again I thank noble Lords who have spoken with a lot of knowledge in this debate. It ...

Lord Martin of Springburn | 736 c97 (Link to this contribution) On that point, does the noble Lord agree that government departments and health services all turn up...

Lord Bach | 736 c97 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is absolutely right; that is the thinking behind it. The same Government who say that...

Lord McNally | 736 c97-8 (Link to this contribution) I actually spoke in favour of that resolution because, as we have been debating for some months now,...

Lord Bach | 736 c98 (Link to this contribution) I am much obliged to the Minister. He supported, then: "““A properly funded system whereby access to...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 736 c98 (Link to this contribution) Is it not quite usual for the Minister to stand on his head?

Lord Bach | 736 c98 (Link to this contribution) A few months ago I would have said no; now I am not quite sure. I just find it incredible that the G...

Lord Best | 736 c98 (Link to this contribution) 75: Schedule 1, page 141, line 7, at end insert ““(1A) Services provided to an individual at risk of...

Lord McNally | 736 c96 (Link to this contribution) On the point that the noble Baroness has just made, I for one would certainly not be worried if the ...

Lord Best | 736 c98-100 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendments 76 and 77 are consequential on Amendment 75. Amendment 75 relates to legal aid ...

Lord McNally | 736 c104 (Link to this contribution) I will consider that matter, but quite honestly, during the passage not just of this Bill but of eve...

Lord Best | 736 c104-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, for his support. Certainly council tax bene...

Lord McNally | 736 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I listened with care to the views of the noble Lord, Lord Best, on matters concerning hous...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 736 c104 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord be kind enough to write to us with a detailed refutation of the specific figures...

Baroness Whitaker | 736 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for the fact that my voice has not kept up with the strength of my convictions...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 736 c108 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support these amendments. I do not want to add anything to the very detailed case alread...

Lord Avebury | 736 c105 (Link to this contribution) 77A: Schedule 1, page 141, line 44, leave out ““subject to sub-paragraph (10)””

Lord Avebury | 736 c105-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 77B to 77D, and after that my noble friend will probably ...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 736 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I fully endorse the amendment proposed by the noble Lord and will add just two points for ...

Lord Beecham | 736 c101-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Best, I have the benefit of having received a briefing from Shel...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c143 (Link to this contribution) 108: Clause 22, page 17, line 41, at end insert ““save that an individual shall not be required to p...

Lord McNally | 736 c143 (Link to this contribution) 107: Clause 22, page 17, line 27, leave out ““for”” and insert ““to”” Amendment 107 agreed. Amendm...

Lord McNally | 736 c143 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it takes a certain amount of, as the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, said, chutzpah—although I d...

Lord Bach | 736 c142 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have déjà vu. We had this same exchange in Committee and I repeat what I think I said th...

Lord McNally | 736 c142 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but there is some kind of responsibility for past acts. It is all right for the noble Lord to g...

Lord Bach | 736 c142 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we give our total support to the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresfor...

Lord McNally | 736 c142 (Link to this contribution) I cannot remember whether the noble Lord was a Minister in the department responsible in 2002, becau...

Lord McNally | 736 c143 (Link to this contribution) 106: Clause 20, page 15, line 22, leave out ““The regulations”” and insert ““Regulations under subse...

Lord Bach | 736 c142 (Link to this contribution) Again, I have déjà vu. I think I ate enough sack cloth and ashes, or whatever the expression is, on ...

Lord McNally | 736 c142 (Link to this contribution) Excellent; that was good for the record. Amendment 105A would amend the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 t...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c143-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I move the amendment in a probing manner. I am concerned about a statement made by the nob...

Lord Beecham | 736 c144 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is another case of déjà vu. In Committee, I congratulated the noble Lord, Lord Thomas...

Lord McNally | 736 c144 (Link to this contribution) Yet again the Opposition, with a completely straight face, agree with my noble friend, although, as ...

Lord Beecham | 736 c144 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend will confirm that from time to time I, in particular, was extremely critical of some...

Lord McNally | 736 c144 (Link to this contribution) Is another noble Lord going to have a go? Is there to be more sackcloth and ashes?

Lord Bach | 736 c145 (Link to this contribution) Not at all. It is late at night, so I think we can forgive the Minister what he considers to be his ...

Lord McNally | 736 c145 (Link to this contribution) Very good. On the specific issue at hand, we hope to bring in the scheme with the rest of the Bill i...

Lord McNally | 736 c148 (Link to this contribution) 112: Clause 25, page 20, line 20, leave out ““for”” and insert ““to”” 113: Clause 25, page 20, lin...

Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 736 c134-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am supported in this amendment by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, and my noble f...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c143 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for saying that, and I am pleased that there are inv...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c145 (Link to this contribution) It is negative in the Bill. My amendment would make it affirmative.

Lord McNally | 736 c138 (Link to this contribution) I think that it lasted under 30 seconds, and what I was trying to draw to the attention of the House...

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Immigration

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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill 2010-12

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