Criminal Procedural Rights (Opt-in Decision)

I was going to make reference to that. I can confirm that we have agreed that we will not partici...

The process that my right hon. Friend has described raises another problem, and I wonder whether ...

That is a very valid point, and my right hon. Friend is right to raise it. As he knows, we have d...

I am grateful for my right hon. Friend’s concluding remarks to the Chair of the Select Committee ...

My hon. Friend highlights an area about which I am concerned, and on which there are perhaps disa...

Does the Secretary of State agree that there is a case for minimum standards for the treatment of...

In some respects, the hon. Gentleman is right, and that is what we do in this country. The questi...

I applaud my right hon. Friend’s wise and sensible decision, and I am particularly pleased to hea...

I will do my best.

Let me touch briefly on the three measures. The first relates to the pre...

My right hon. Friend will recall that, on the question of the public prosecutor, the threshold wa...

I attended the Justice and Home Affairs Council at which this issue was discussed, and I have to ...

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I give way to the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee.

I agree with what the Lord Chancellor has said this evening. Does he know whether we have been ab...

At the moment, this is in the early stages. One reason that we agreed to participate in the negot...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way and I am sorry that I missed the very beginn...

That is the point. We have 800 years of legal tradition in this country. It has evolved in a numb...

On that point and the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz...

The hon. Gentleman and I are on different sides of the House. When we disagree on different issue...

Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman can confirm the estimated costs of that measure in terms of adde...

I just said that it was not a large amount. It is a question of principle. Do we want decisions a...

I can be fairly brief in addressing these three draft directives. That is not to say that they ar...

My hon. Friend will be aware that we already practise the assumption of innocence unless proven g...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. Where that is possible we should do it, and I will refer to a ...

The House will have been relieved to hear that the hon. Gentleman is persuaded by his own argumen...

That is the purpose of this speech, if the hon. Gentleman will bear with me. In relation to the d...

My main concern about these measures, as I have said, is the fact that opting in to them would me...

I do not accept the argument that everything that comes out of Brussels is necessarily evil or in...

Surely the point on legal aid is that this is to protect British citizens who might be wrongly ac...

My hon. Friend makes a good point which is exactly the one I made in relation to access to a lawy...

As the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr Slaughter) said, the handling of this set of proposals has...

That process is exactly what we recommend in our report, which is currently awaiting the Governme...

Perhaps unusually, my hon. Friend and I are indeed at one on this issue. As Chairman of the Liais...

I will be brief. It is a pleasure to follow the Chair of the Liaison and Justice Committees. I ag...

The hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr Slaughter) quoted his speech in 2011, but it is his speech to...

I am sympathetic to the directives. The case for minimum standards across Europe has partially be...

I am extremely glad to be able to commend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice ...

Is my hon. Friend struck by the fact that when the Conservative party is Eurosceptic, it is unite...

I am indeed. I must be careful in what I say, but I simply note that when the Lisbon treaty was g...

I thank all Members who have contributed to the debate. I am delighted to discover that there is ...

That is true, but it is better still if, rather than our waiting until the Government have finall...

I entirely accept that. We will try to ensure that we do what we can to supply the right informat...

Will the Justice Secretary confirm that the Government are still negotiating on the issues of chi...

We have told our European partners—and will do so again if the House approves the motion tonight—...

To add to that point, the other member states by and large have written constitutions, while we o...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and that is why I fundamentally disagree with the Commissione...