Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Bill [HL]

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the Minister on his magisterial introduction to the Bill, which I ...

My Lords, I, too, welcome this Bill. As my noble friend has explained in his lucid and comprehens...

My Lords, I am no lawyer and do not propose to go into the detail of the Bill. My sole objective ...

My Lords, I had friends—not Quakers—whose favourite activity of a long winter’s night, when we we...

My Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity to speak during the gap. I do not intend to deal with...

I am sure that this is not courteous but I should like not only to place on record the work done ...

I entirely agree with the noble Lord—I can remember Lord Etherton badgering me in exactly the sam...

My Lords, I join other noble Lords in thanking the Minister for the clarity with which he went th...

My Lords, we have had a good debate, which I am sure bodes well for very interesting discussions ...

My Lords, I draw my noble friend’s attention to a distinction that I hoped I had made between con...

I could not agree more. I also say that I take very seriously my responsibility to bring the non-...

I have done that so often.

It is the classic. There is an old joke of which I saw a picture in a bar in Scotland: one farmer...