Defamation Bill

My Lords, first I would say that we often refer to Fox’s Libel Act. I hope that when this Bill be...

My Lords, I am delighted to welcome this situation, and to see the Defamation Bill back on its or...

Moved by

Lord McNally:

That this House do not insist on its Amendment 2, to which the...

My Lords, in speaking to this Motion, I shall speak also to Motions B1 and B2, tabled by the nobl...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

As an amendment to Motion B, after “2B” inse...

My Lords, in moving Motion B1, I start with an extraordinarily warm welcome for government Amendm...

I wish to make a few remarks which may embarrassingly reveal my lack of full acquaintance with th...

My Lords, I hope, in what will be a short speech, to deal with all the amendments together. In an...

My Lords, perhaps I may deal first with government Amendment 2B. Initially, I was very sympatheti...

My Lords, I shall talk briefly to Amendment 2B and, in so doing, I echo what has been said about ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 2C. However, I feel I have to respond immediately to the w...

I would like to express my relief that the Defamation Bill has finally been unblocked and returne...

Lord McNally:

My Lords, I am very grateful for the contributions that have been made. This ...

I am grateful to my noble friend. Although my noble friend is not a lawyer, and has the great adv...

I have no doubt that my noble friend is right. What I would prefer to do, as we have been arguing...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for making reference to my noble friend Lord Browne of La...

I am very sorry to intervene, but Clause 1 has to be read with what we are talking about.

It was the word “bring”. What we are trying to say regarding permissions is that permission of th...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. I understand her desire not to encourage...

It is interesting, but performance of public function will be under either a contract or a commis...

I am very grateful. The problem is that Section 6 of the Human Rights Act talks about functions o...

Parliament can decide that the organisations contracted to do those public functions should have ...

Before the noble Baroness sits down—no, she is absolutely right—and before she lures Lord May and...

If they read my article, they would see that it says that this Bill has gone a long way towards w...