Procedure for Appointing Judges
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the procedure for appointing judges.
It...
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the independence of our judiciary and the way in which we appo...
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I agree with the hon. Gentleman wholeheartedly. I will return to that point later. The exchanges ...
I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate, and I join him in congratula...
I do not have a ready answer to that. The numbers show that it may not have gone far enough. I ag...
I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate, and I agree with much of what he has sa...
I welcome that intervention, and the hon. Gentleman raises an interesting question. There are a c...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma.
I warmly congratulate the hon...
Would my hon. Friend make a distinction between the sort of confirmation hearings that we hold as...
My hon. Friend is right. There are two misnomers in this sense. Confirmation, in the strict sense...
I am most grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee for giving way. May I declare my interest...
The right hon. Gentleman reminds me to refer Members to my entries in the Register of Members’ Fi...
I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way for a second time and enabling me to temp...
The right hon. Gentleman tempts me and I fall into the trap willingly: I entirely agree with him....
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Mr Sharma. I congratulate my hon. Friend th...
As I was sitting here, it occurred to me that a former colleague of ours, albeit from before our ...
I was not aware of that. Certainly my party, the Scottish National party, believes that MPs shoul...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. I congratulate the hon. Member for ...
It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma, in my first appearance as Min...
I welcome what the Minister says, which gives me the opportunity to pay a personal tribute to His...
I concur with both comments. I would also like to thank Judge McKinnon, who is a constituent of m...
Let me be generous and say famous! It gives me, the Lord Chancellor, and the Government as a whol...
This has been a worthwhile debate with cross-party strong and unequivocal support for the princip...