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My right hon. Friend is making a fantastically important speech, and I look forward to joining hi...

My hon. Friend alights upon a very important point. It is very clear that some London-based law f...

The right hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech. On the point of the lawyers who are facil...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important and persuasive point, but I suspect there are other people ...

As a former colleague of Charlotte Leslie, I think she has been treated appallingly just for doin...

My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. The way that it happens is that there are legal fir...

To reinforce a point that other hon. Members will probably make, although the lawyers—the Carter-...

I take my hon. Friend’s point. He will understand that I am picking my way carefully through my s...

It is a real privilege and an honour to follow the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (...

My right hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, and I congratulate him on securing this debat...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I will come on that in a moment.

The truth is that ...

This is yet another great speech. Does the right hon. Gentleman think that these solicitors’ bodi...

The hon. Gentleman is right on that. When we welcomed the integrated review and the rhetoric of “...

Before I call Sir Robert Neill, let me just remind everybody that the sub judice waiver is not a ...

Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I promise that in my brief remarks I will endeavour not t...

My hon. Friend is infinitely more expert than I am in these matters, but the point has been raise...

Let us be very clear: there are very significant regulations relating to the conduct of law firms...

Is my hon. Friend saying—he may well be right; I make no assertions—that it is a complete coincid...

If Mr Tomlinson practises in that field, it is open to him to take those cases—I have to say that...

I am sorry to press my hon. Friend on the point, but is there also a requirement on the law firm—...

Absolutely. The regulations dealing with the solicitors profession have very considerable require...

As has already been said, my hon. Friend is infinitely more expert in these things than most of u...

Let us put it this way: Parliament may decide as a matter of policy that certain behaviours are u...

The hon. Gentleman is doing an immense service to the House by bringing his expertise to this deb...

Obviously, I am not in a position to consider the facts in that case. If people have suggestions,...

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I will give way to my hon. Friend, and then I will try to make a bit of progress, because I have ...

My hon. Friend is making fantastically important points, and we are testing our arguments on him ...

We must always make sure that the regulatory regime is kept up to date and fit for purpose. That ...

The hon. Gentleman is being incredibly generous. I underline that the Ministry of Justice is out ...

Protection of the media and the right to free speech are fundamental to our convention obligation...

I thank the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) and my right hon. Friend the ...

The hon. Lady is making a powerful speech. I was not aware of all the details of what she has bee...

I thank the hon. Member for his strong point. I followed very closely the case he mentions of his...

I shall be very brief because many of the points I intended to make have been eloquently expresse...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) and my right hon. Frie...

I thank the hon. Member for Eltham (Clive Efford) for his speech; I agree with many of his points...

Does the hon. Member agree that if the Government are to tackle the type of Russian interference ...

I am not quite sure of the case that the hon. Lady talks about but the principle is clear: SLAPP ...

It is pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely), and to contribu...

My hon. Friend makes an important point on whistleblowers. They get privilege if they give eviden...

I thank my hon. Friend, who speaks with experience as a former Chair of a Select Committee. The P...

On privilege, occasionally we get the use of it wrong and everyone talks about abusing it, but ac...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention.

One thing that came up when we were discussing the strategy of this debate was the question of wh...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. I will ensure that all three of those interve...

As a former Chair of the Select Committee on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, I know from exper...

Yes, I quite understand the position that Clerks are in; our staffers can be in the same position...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) on securing this fasci...

I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting this important debate, and congratulate the...

indicated assent.

I see the hon. Gentleman in his place, and I commend him for his learned speech. Riverside Adviso...

I begin by congratulating my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) a...

I have been here purely to listen to the debate, but I have one question for the Minister. Does h...

My right hon. Friend, who has a track record of scrutinising such matters, makes a very good poin...

I am sorry to come back, but that was not a reply to my intervention. I made it quite clear that ...

Let me be clear to my right hon. Friend. I was simply referring to the debate as a whole. I recog...

I am grateful to the Minister for listening to the debate. He says that the intervention of my ri...

I recognise that there is a lot of concern about sources of money. The hon. Member for Eltham (Cl...

I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. I know that he is working very hard on ...

I certainly recognise it from what my right hon. and learned Friend said. I apologise to my right...

I did not want to mention Charlotte Leslie specifically, but we have spent plenty of time hearing...

Let me just answer.

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I will respond to the intervention first, because this is important. I said at the beginning that...

Order. We will be very careful about specific cases. I understand the point that the right hon. G...

I will come to what I think is one of the most important points—my final substantive point—which ...

I have to say that before we started I did not necessarily expect this debate to be a particular ...

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The right hon. Gentleman has already spoken, but he has the leave of the House to speak again.