Crime and Courts Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support the change in position made by the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, between Committe...

My Lords, Amendments 116DA and 116DB revisit an issue that we considered in Committee: namely, pa...

My Lords, I find that slightly disappointing. The Minister did not address the issue of incentivi...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

117: Transpose Schedule 17 to before Schedule 14

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

118: Before Clause 26, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 124, which is in the group.

The new clause to be ...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the Government for considering the matters raised in my Amendment...

My Lords, perhaps I may add to what my noble friend has just said. My wife is an immigration and ...

My Lords, I would like to comment on that because one of my responsibilities within the Home Offi...

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

118ZA: Clause 26, page 23, line 26, at end insert...

My Lords, perhaps this is a timely amendment in the context of the debate that we have just had a...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness. A great many of the refusals of applications for leave...

My Lords, many years ago, in 1967, I did the first case in Strasbourg against the United Kingdom:...

My Lords, I will address Amendment 118ZA in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Smith. Before I ...

Will my noble friend deal with the point I made? The exercise of the right of appeal is not only ...

I do not accept that at all. If someone’s application to visit this country is refused, then I re...

My Lords, the Minister has always been generous with his time and courteous in his response, but ...

The allegation that we are not taking steps to improve the original decision-making has been refu...

I do not doubt that that is the Minister’s intention, but when we hear that the success rate of a...

Moved by

Lord Avebury

118C: Clause 27, page 24, line 17, at end insert—

“(4) Th...

My Lords, leaving out this clause would ensure that a person who is outside the country when his ...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Avebury. As he said, it is very difficult effectively to...

My Lords, when the noble Lord, Lord Avebury, raised this issue in Committee, I raised with the Mi...

My Lords, the noble Baroness described me as “noble and learned”. I should not be described in th...

My Lords, we set out in Committee the reasons for Clause 27. It demonstrates a current anomaly in...

The point has already been made in this debate that if such an appeal is made, the appellant is p...

I tend to disagree with the noble Lord. I cannot see why it should be possible to allow somebody ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. Is not the point that however reprehensible the allegations agai...

I think we disagree on that. Noble Lords will understand the premise on which the Government are ...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister but I am now genuinely bemused. We know from the Chahal case...

I am not a lawyer but I am, I hope, filled with common sense. It strikes me as being quite nonsen...

I have been listening to this debate without any particularly strong views either way. However, p...

My Lords, the process of appeal is open to anybody and the circumstances in which they have found...

I, too, have been listening very closely to this debate, with no expertise whatever. However, I t...

I think that would be counterproductive. If the noble Lord thinks through the circumstances of th...

Am I right in thinking that this form of appeal from outside the country has been part of the imm...

The noble and learned Lord is perfectly correct in that regard.

My Lords, just before my noble friend sits down, I would like to understand the position. Somebod...

My Lords, the crux of the matter is that the Minister suggests that credible evidence exists for ...

I realise we are on Report, but I will just say to the noble Lord that it may be that the conduct...

I do not know. The noble Lord has raised this for the first time. It has often been suggested tha...

Moved by

Baroness Meacher

118E: Clause 29, page 28, line 24, leave out “controlled” a...

I shall speak also to Amendment 118GA and shall not speak to Amendment 118G. I also wish to regis...

My Lords, semaphore signals made across the Chamber are always excessively polite. I do not want ...

My Lords, I wish to speak briefly in relation to this group of amendments and Clause 29, largely ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 118H, 118K and 118L. I say to the Minister at the outset th...

My Lords, I recognise that the amendments relate to concerns about the Government’s approach to d...

My Lords, I am sorry to intervene but I just want the noble Lord to clarify the point about the i...

My Lords, as I understand it, the doctor’s instructions will trump the leaflet. If I am wrong on ...

I thank the Minister for his response. I remain completely unconvinced that there is any logic at...

My Lords, we asked the expert panel to consider the drugs that we thought were causing a road saf...

I know that noble Lords do not want me to take any more time because people need to move on. My o...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

118N: Clause 29, page 29, line 23, at end insert—

“( )...

My Lords, I hope to be very brief on this amendment and on Amendment 118P. These amendments deal ...

My Lords, I would point out first that these are very important clauses and it is right that the ...

My Lords, for speed, I will not comment on that other than to thank the noble Earl. I beg leave t...

Moved by

Lord Dear

119: After Clause 29, insert the following new Clause—

“Publ...

My Lords, in introducing Amendment 119 I have in the front of my mind the words attributed to Vol...

My Lords, I support the amendment. I will not take long because I hope that we will move to a vot...

My Lords, as the third string, it seems to me that freedom of expression is an extremely importan...

I rise briefly in support of the masterly way in which the noble Lord, Lord Dear, has introduced ...

My Lords, like many other people, I received a large number of e-mails and letters all going one ...

My Lords, I was hoping that my noble friend Lord Macdonald would be in his place as he was a litt...

My Lords, as we have heard, it is nearly a year since the Government launched their consultation ...

Perhaps I may ask my noble friend whether the word “abusive” would deal with that. The law is the...

My Lords, it may well be. The answer is that I do not know. There has to be a proper examination ...

If my noble friend wants evidence, would she not take into account the views of the Director of P...

My Lords, I would absolutely take that view on information from the Director of Public Prosecutio...

My noble friend must have regard to the fact that the director is the head of the prosecution ser...

My Lords, I am not disputing that. I am disputing that that should be taken in context with the o...

We would not sully our ears with the expressions used in the instance that the noble Baroness has...

My understanding of the case concerning Mr Braithewaite and Miss Williams is that the defendant w...

My Lords, I understand the interest that has been shown in this debate. I thank the noble Barones...

My Lords—

I am sorry, but I am not prepared to give way. I want the House to hear the argument that has gon...

My Lords—

Order!

I will urge noble Lords to reject the amendment.

Would the noble Lord like to comment on the fact that the Director of Public Prosecutions has cha...

The letter is available, no doubt, from the noble Lord, Lord Dear, in full. I suggest that noble ...

In so far as I understand the term “abusive”—most noble Lords will understand that term—can the M...

My Lords, I shall respond to one thing. Lest there should be any doubt that I might have been con...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

120: Clause 30, page 30, line 43, after “30” insert ...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

121: Clause 33, page 32, line 41, after “17” insert ...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

122A: Clause 33, page 33, line 1, leave out “Section 21(2) come...

Moved by

Baroness Deech

122AA: Clause 33, page 33, line 16, at end insert—

“( )...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

122B: Clause 33, page 33, line 17, at end insert—

“( ) se...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

122C: Clause 33, page 33, line 33, at end insert—