Justice and Security Bill [HL]

My Lords, in general, the amendments which the Minister has described are very welcome to the Int...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very detailed explanation of the amendments before us. In ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Butler, and the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Basildon, fo...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

My Lords, I beg to move that this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 4 and in doi...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 6A as an amendment to Amendment 6.

During the Second...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 6B in my name. Everyone accepts that CMPs represent a significant ...

My Lords, I shall confine what I have to say to Amendment 6B, now that it has been spoken to by t...

My Lords, I will address Amendments 6A and 6B and the consequential Amendments 16A, 16B and 16C. ...

My Lords, in rising to support this Bill I confess to a particular interest in the legislation. M...

My Lords, it is too late in this process to take the view that closed material procedures can nev...

Before the noble and learned Lord sits down, perhaps I may ask a layman’s question. It may be an ...

The principal test should be whether the only fair way of determining the matter is through a CMP...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly to Amendments 6A and 6B in this group and I am privileged to se...

My Lords, as a former Minister with responsibility for MI6 I realise that although it has a need ...

My Lords, I support Amendments 6A and 6B. I think that there is agreement in the House that CMP s...

My Lords, I suppose that I can claim to have had some experience in dealing with this area of the...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, has made that point twice. Does h...

Absolutely, that is the procedure with excluded material. Of course, excluding the material can s...

My Lords, much of what I intended to say has already been said, but I shall give an illustration ...

How does my noble friend know what the judge would have decided, assuming that he had had a chanc...

I am not saying what decision he would have made—how could I possibly know? I am saying that the ...

Perhaps I may say, as a court judge, that nobody would ever visit a judge up the back stairs when...

I have certainly been up the front stairs to see many a judge in chambers. The noble and learned ...

My Lords, I propose to say only very little because to some extent I anticipated what I might say...

I ask my noble and learned friend two short questions. The first is a very simple one, possibly e...

My Lords, I hesitate to stand after the really important contributions by so many Members of this...

Does the noble Baroness know of a single case in which sensitive security material such as she ta...

No, but I am saying that if the amendment balances national security versus open justice, however...

My Lords, I fear that I have to disagree with two eminent judges—the noble and learned Lords, Lor...

My Lords, I ought to declare that my daughter is chairman of Liberty, but I fear that she will be...

My Lords, I had not intended to take part in this debate but I have been moved to do so. We have ...

My Lords, the House will agree that this has been a very good and well informed debate and rightl...

Is my noble and learned friend saying that the judges will apply a balancing test when they exerc...

My Lords, it is very clear that open justice is part of our justice system. It is implied by the ...

My Lords, I point out to the Minister that I, too, am a member of the Joint Committee on Human Ri...

My Lords, I fully accept that the Joint Committee on Human Rights and your Lordships’ Constitutio...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

Moved by

Lord Beecham

6A: Line 2, at beginning insert “If the court considers that a ...

My Lords, your Lordships will be at one with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern...

My Lords, for the convenience of the House, I will speak also to the other amendments in this gro...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 19A to 19D in my name as amendments to Amendment 19, conc...

My Lords, I want to reinforce what the Minister has said about the prejudice which a sunset claus...

My Lords, I support the amendments moved by the noble Lord, Lord Marks, and I am prepared to say ...

My Lords, this has been a relatively short debate, but nevertheless important points have been ma...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

Moved by

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

19B: Line 6, leave out “five” and insert “fou...

I have not moved Amendment 19A, but Amendments 19B to 19D, as a suite, on the principle of renewa...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

My Lords, I beg to move that this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 25. This is ...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness