Justice and Security Bill [HL]

My Lords, when I spoke to your Lordship’s House on Second Reading, I highlighted how the injectio...

My Lords, I should say immediately that I am a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, and...

The noble Baroness gave the example of drones. Could she explain how anything in the Bill would i...

There is a case going through the courts. A British resident called Noor Khan is seeking a judici...

I am sorry to press the noble Baroness, but I still do not understand what she is saying. It must...

I am interested to hear the noble Lord, Lord Lester, the great human rights lawyer, defending sec...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I am sorry to start by correcting...

I am sure the noble Lord is not suggesting that those of us who oppose these clauses are in favou...

There are three points there. First, of course I was not suggesting that there was any intent on ...

My Lords—

Let me finish with the questions that I have been asked and then I will happily come back to the ...

The noble Lord is presenting a parody of the argument that I have made, and I refute it. I unders...

My Lords—

Perhaps I may respond and then I will give way to the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller. I w...

The noble Lord, Lord Strasburger, should speak first.

Can the noble Lord tell the House about a single occasion when a British court has released into ...

That is rather a Catch-22 question, is it not? The reason they have not is that they have settled...

Then the answer to my question is no.

The explanation for a no is always more substantial than a straight no.

My Lords, I feel I have to rise to speak because of the presumption of guilt suggested by some pe...

I must ask the noble Baroness if she was listening when I made my speech. I made it very clear th...

Because it relates to the Libyan thing, I cannot answer the question. It is the subject of crimin...

Does the noble Baroness agree that—

My Lords, perhaps I may remind the House that the Companion sets out that, at Report stage, a spe...

I will give way but I was not quite finished. I have heard of being overtaken by events but I thi...

I hope the fact that, with Roy Jenkins, I helped produce the first anti-terrorism Bill, which bec...

I am going to be fairly brief. I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Reid, will accept that I have an ...

I am not insulted, I just feel that when the suggestion is that we have committed serious crime, ...

I understand that.

What I want to do is to return, I am afraid, to the legal context. I wil...

My Lords, the noble Lord has spoken very powerfully about the importance of public trust and how ...

My Lords, the Justice and Security Bill demands justice and security. We have been quite rightly ...

My Lords, I have had experience of a torture case, the Baha Mousa case, which involved the death ...

My Lords, I begin by paying tribute to my noble friend Lord Dubs, who has spent a lifetime in the...

My Lords, this has clearly been an important debate with passions expressed on both sides of the ...

Is the Minister saying that the amendments we passed this afternoon will not be reversed in the C...

This is the Bill as the House has now passed it. The House has accepted that CMPs are needed. The...

My Lords, we have been over these issues a number of times this evening, so I shall confine mysel...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

47: Clause 7, page 5, line 33, at end insert “and that damage o...

My Lords, we debated the amendment much earlier this evening. It relates to Clause 7 and is the e...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

59: Clause 11, page 8, line 1, leave out subsecti...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

62: After Clause 11, insert the following new Clause—

“Ex...

My Lords, sunset clauses are never popular with governments and I suspect not too popular with Me...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, for moving the amendment, which I say at the outset we are ...

My Lords, the Minister should recognise that the amendment relates only to Clauses 6 to 11.

I apologise. Other amendments are grouped with it which I suspect have not been spoken to. None t...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. I welcome the noble and learned Lord’s indication that som...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

63: After Clause 12, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, I have a speaking note for this amendment and I will not take the risk of moving it for...

My Lords, I do not dissent from the Minister’s reasoning, and indeed am grateful to him for expla...

My Lords, I will follow that by asking whether the Government are satisfied that the objections t...

My Lords, I endorse my noble friend’s remarks. I touched on a similar point during Second Reading...

I am grateful to noble Lords for extending the scope of our debate somewhat, outside the frame of...

Moved by

Lord Dubs

64: Clause 13, page 9, line 40, at end insert—

“( ) Section ...

I will be very brief. We now come to the Norwich Pharmacal issues: applications for public intere...

I, too, feel strongly that this is an issue of some importance and I thank my noble friend Lord D...

I also support this important amendment. We know that some countries that are considered to be re...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, for moving this amendment. We now move on to the Nor...

My Lords, the hour is late. We could debate this for a long time, but I beg leave to withdraw the...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

66: Clause 13, page 10, line 7, after “is” insert “certified”