Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Bills
House of Commons
I beg to move,
That this House insists on its disagreement with Lords amendment 74 and prop...
With this it will be convenient to consider: Government motion to disagree with Lords amendment 1...
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We need to focus on two areas of the Government’s programme of reform: secure colleges and judici...
The Secretary of State talks about the outcome for the applicant, but it has been put to me by a ...
I hope I can reassure the hon. Gentleman by saying that the legal advice I have received is that ...
Will the Secretary of State give an example of the kind of mischief that he is trying to stop?
I have set out a number of examples. On Second Reading I referred to cases where essential infras...
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for listening most carefully to some of the matters that we...
My judgment was that a conventional level of judgment against public interest was not sufficient ...
I speak from memory, so forgive me if I do not have this exactly right. My understanding was that...
That is absolutely the case, but on more than one occasion in my ministerial time, and the same a...
Will the Lord Chancellor give us an example of one of those minor cases to which he refers?
I have experienced at least two examples of third-party groups seeking to argue that a form of co...
On 1 December last, in our previous session of ping-pong on this troubled Bill, I started my comm...
I will, I hope, be very brief. As the Secretary of State knows, it was in response to me that he ...
With the leave of the House, I shall say some brief words in response to the two contributions.
The judge can assess rationality and reasonableness, but my particular concern is about legality....
The whole purpose of the reforms is to protect public bodies against cases brought on a technical...
I would be most grateful if my right hon. Friend addressed the point I raised. What is the differ...
My hon. and learned Friend mentions the common law approach. When it was introduced in 1974, judi...
I have some sympathy with what my right hon. Friend is trying to do, because I witnessed at first...
We thought carefully about how best to address that issue, and the original clause was straightfo...
I agree with what my right hon. Friend is attempting to do, but I suspect he is trying to pot the...
Order. I say to the hon. and learned Gentleman with great respect that the intellectualism and er...
What a most unusual admonition. I think the Lord Chancellor understands my point, and I hope I am...
Let me give an example of one consultation response that we received when we put forward our thou...
Does the Secretary of State mean what he said a few minutes ago, which is that cases of really eg...
We will probably beg to differ on that, but my hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right. One o...
On transparency, I think I am inclined to support the Justice Secretary, but if there is a shell ...
That may indeed be an option in the courts. I go back to the Richard III case which, the hon. Gen...
The process of ping-pong has narrowed the issues. I am grateful to my right hon. Friend that on t...
The key issue is that it is very easy to define a public interest around public authorities fulfi...
One of my problems is that the Secretary of State is trying to prove the general from the particu...
I do not accept that I am banging my head against the wall. I think we have struck a sensible bal...