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Procedure for Appointing Judges

Debate on Tuesday, 8 October 2019, in the House of Commons, led by Stuart C McDonald. The answering member was Chris Philp.
Motion, That this house has considered the procedure for appointing judges. Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
664 cc498-515WH 
Session
2017-19
Department
Ministry of Justice
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Procedure for appointing judges
Friday, 4 October 2019
Research briefings
Proceeding contributions
Stuart C McDonald | 664 c499WH (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered the procedure for appointing judges.

It...

John Howell | 664 c499WH (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the independence of our judiciary and the way in which we appo...


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Stuart C McDonald | 664 cc499-501WH (Link to this contribution)

I agree with the hon. Gentleman wholeheartedly. I will return to that point later. The exchanges ...

Keith Vaz | 664 c500WH (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate, and I join him in congratula...

Stuart C McDonald | 664 c500WH (Link to this contribution)

I do not have a ready answer to that. The numbers show that it may not have gone far enough. I ag...

Dan Poulter | 664 c500WH (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate, and I agree with much of what he has sa...

Stuart C McDonald | 664 cc502-3WH (Link to this contribution)

I welcome that intervention, and the hon. Gentleman raises an interesting question. There are a c...

Robert Neill | 664 c503WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma.

I warmly congratulate the hon...

John Howell | 664 c503WH (Link to this contribution)

Would my hon. Friend make a distinction between the sort of confirmation hearings that we hold as...

Robert Neill | 664 cc503-4WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. There are two misnomers in this sense. Confirmation, in the strict sense...

Keith Vaz | 664 c504WH (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee for giving way. May I declare my interest...

Robert Neill | 664 c504WH (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman reminds me to refer Members to my entries in the Register of Members’ Fi...

Keith Vaz | 664 c504WH (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way for a second time and enabling me to temp...

Robert Neill | 664 cc504-5WH (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman tempts me and I fall into the trap willingly: I entirely agree with him....

Joanna Cherry | 664 cc505-6WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Mr Sharma. I congratulate my hon. Friend th...

Dan Poulter | 664 c506WH (Link to this contribution)

As I was sitting here, it occurred to me that a former colleague of ours, albeit from before our ...

Joanna Cherry | 664 cc507-9WH (Link to this contribution)

I was not aware of that. Certainly my party, the Scottish National party, believes that MPs shoul...

Yasmin Qureshi | 664 cc508-512WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. I congratulate the hon. Member for ...

Chris Philp | 664 cc512-4WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma, in my first appearance as Min...

Robert Neill | 664 c514WH (Link to this contribution)

I welcome what the Minister says, which gives me the opportunity to pay a personal tribute to His...

Chris Philp | 664 cc514-5WH (Link to this contribution)

I concur with both comments. I would also like to thank Judge McKinnon, who is a constituent of m...

Chris Philp | 664 c515WH (Link to this contribution)

Let me be generous and say famous! It gives me, the Lord Chancellor, and the Government as a whol...

Stuart C McDonald | 664 c515WH (Link to this contribution)

This has been a worthwhile debate with cross-party strong and unequivocal support for the princip...

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