Crime and Courts Bill [HL]

My Lords—

My Lords, forgive me. I want to make, not a pre-emptive remark, but an introductory one. I apolog...

My Lords, I understand that Amendment 5, to which I wish I speak, arises in particular out of con...

My Lords, I declare an interest as co-chair of the human trafficking parliamentary group. If ther...

My Lords, I would be most grateful if the Minister could clarify the position, raised by the nobl...

My Lords, I see that the Minister is eager to respond, which I can well understand. I do not inte...

Lord Elton:

Before the noble Baroness sits down, I should say that the Clerk of the Parliam...

Baroness Smith of Basildon:

I readily concede the noble Lord’s encyclopaedic knowledge of t...

My Lords, I am sorry if my responses on Report failed to satisfy the House; I hope that I can sat...

My Lords, I am most grateful for the renewed support of the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, the noble a...

I am sorry but I did make it patently clear that there is no policy of waiting for people to leav...

I know that my noble friend said that, but he did not respond to the point I made about the evide...

Moved by

Baroness Meacher

2: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, Amendment 2 seeks to provide some protection for vulnerable people who have suffered un...

My Lords, I should declare an interest as chair of the Enforcement Law Reform Group. As such, I c...

I follow my noble friend Lord Lucas and concur with what he and the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher,...

My Lords, I too am glad to support the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, and her amendment which seek...

My Lords, I came to listen and I do not think I have ever heard more powerful, convincing pleas f...

My Lords, it is hard to follow the eloquence and persuasiveness of the noble Lord, Lord Cormack. ...

My Lords, over the years I have been very much persuaded on this issue by those who have put forw...

My Lords, I raised the issue of bailiffs at Second Reading. I followed it up with a Written Quest...

My Lords, perhaps it will at least allow the Whips to send out the necessary message that I can m...

My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken. I thank the noble Lords, Lord Lucas and Lord Cormack...

Moved by

Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers

3: Before Clause 27, insert the following n...

My Lords, I apologise for the fact that I was not able to be present to move a similar amendment ...

My Lords, perhaps I may add two points to what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Phillips of Worth...

My Lords, if your Lordships can bear a third lawyer in a row, I, too, would like to express my su...

Lord Goodhart:

My Lords, I am going to take a rather unusual position on this and say that ...

My Lords, although this may seem to be a technical point to some Members of the House, it is actu...

My Lords, I am the first Member to speak to this amendment who was a member of the Government at ...

My Lords, I strongly supported, as did my party, the separation of the traditional branch from th...

My Lords, I add my voice to those who support this amendment. I do so with diffidence, because it...

My Lords, I think I am the first non-lawyer to contribute, very briefly, to this debate. I see th...

My Lords, I, too, feel compelled to say just a word in support of this amendment. I support it fo...

My Lords, I speak with diffidence as, I think, the ninth lawyer to speak in this debate—albeit fr...

My Lords, I hesitate to intervene in the debate when so many distinguished members of the judicia...

The noble Lord’s memory is correct. Does he remember that consideration of arguments of the kind ...

Yes, I remember those arguments well. The issue is to what extent the Government—the Executive—sh...

My Lords, I often think how well served we are by the depth and richness of the judicial talent t...

My Lords, I am grateful to those who have supported the amendment and to the Minister for the exq...

Moved by

Lord Bradley

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

“Pro...

My Lords, I will not detain the House long on this new clause, as there was a good debate on the ...

My Lords, I put my name to this amendment for two reasons. The first was that earlier in the work...

My Lords, I support this amendment. More than 60% of children in the youth justice system have co...

My Lords, I support my noble friend—he is my noble friend although he is on the other side of the...

My Lords, it comes as a sort of alarm to hear the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, indicate that ther...

My Lords, I take the Government’s point about resources, but as my noble friend rightly points ou...

My Lords, I must admit that, as I listened to the debate, time stopped for a moment when I saw th...

My Lords, I wonder whether the Minister could answer a question about the increase in the number ...

The noble Lord raises an important point and, with the permission of the House, the Minister will...

It is disappointing that between Report and Third Reading the Government have not reached the con...

Moved by

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

6: Schedule 13, page 218, line 11, at end ins...

My Lords, I spoke on the topic of judicial diversity at some length on Report and I shall not det...

I do not wish to pre-empt or shorten the debate, but it might help if I were to say something her...

My Lords, my name is not on this amendment but I have spoken several times on this subject during...

My Lords, I, too, am very grateful to the Minister for bringing forward Amendment 8. It is import...

My Lords, I, too, welcome this amendment and thank the Minister for accepting the arguments. The ...

My Lords, I would not normally speak in a debate such as this, but this matter is very close to m...

My Lords, as noble Lords know, I chaired the Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity a couple of yea...

My Lords, the Opposition are delighted to join in this outbreak of consensus and congratulate the...

Given those interventions I wish only to quote somebody who never made it to this House and say t...

Perhaps the Minister would care to fortify himself before these debates in the same way that Mr C...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord McNally

8: Schedule 13, page 218, line 24, at end insert—

“Encour...

Moved by

Lord Woolf

9: Schedule 15, page 268, line 6, at end insert—

“Part 6A