Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

My Lords, there are parts of this Bill to be applauded and other parts, alas, to be decried. I fo...

My Lords, little did I think that I would get to my feet having heard parallels being drawn betwe...

My Lords, as the Minister said at the beginning of this debate, the Bill makes significant change...

My Lords, I may be about to enter the record books for the shortest ever Second Reading speech. M...

My Lords, I am sure everyone in the House will be most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Black, fo...

My Lords, when I was a relatively young judge, a long time ago, and I had to travel on judicial b...

My Lords, it is always a great privilege to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf. If eve...

My Lords, I begin by assuring the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, that Peper Harow, in the name of Chil...

I apologise to the noble Lord. I remember it being burnt down and have not kept up with developme...

The house itself was burnt down, but the organisation is functioning in smaller houses, which is ...

My Lords, my remarks will be directed to Part 4 of the Bill. However, I cannot resist noting how ...

My Lords, I shall concentrate my remarks on the proposal for the establishment of secure colleges...

My Lords, that was a powerful and salutary speech to have to follow.

At the Second Reading ...

My Lords, for some inexplicable reason my name was omitted from the list of speakers for this aft...

My Lords, on looking at the Bill for the first time, I think that many Members of your Lordships’...

My Lords, I said in opening that I anticipated that the Bill would receive scrutiny of the highes...

Before the noble Lord leaves the point about the network of secure colleges, does it follow that ...

I understand the noble Lord’s mathematics and on the current numbers there would be a logic behin...

Can the noble Lord confirm that the rules will be subject to parliamentary approval?

They will be part of the consultation in the course of amendment but not specifically subject to ...

Does the Minister accept that no intervention can take place without the leave of the court? What...

My answer to that is that the hypothetical Mr Justice Beecham on a busy list is told that there m...

Does the Minister accept that it is very important to look at the situation again with regard to ...

I absolutely understand what the noble and learned Lord is saying about that. Such was the volume...

I make one further point, if the Minister will be patient—I apologise for interrupting him again....

I am grateful for that advice and, if I may, will perhaps respond no further at this stage.