Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

My Lords, a wasted costs order transfers costs caused by the legal representative’s improper cond...

I suppose that I should have declared an interest as a member of the Law Society, although I conf...

My Lords, I now turn to Clauses 51 and 52 and government Amendment 86. Clause 51 amends the Conte...

My Lords, as the noble Lord the Minister said, the Government have had second thoughts—somewhat b...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

69B: Clause 53, page 56, line 35, leave out “but u...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 69B, I shall speak also to the other amendments in the group. I am ...

My Lords, Clause 53 amends the Juries Act 1974, raising the upper age limit for jury service from...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I should declare the interest of having appeared...

I am grateful to my noble friend for that intervention. Clearly this matter should be taken very ...

May I say a word about the proposed age limit of 75 for serving on a jury? I had better declare m...

I am grateful for the contribution of the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart, to the issue, which I entire...

From the point of view of the magistracy, where there is currently retirement at 70, it is the vi...

I am grateful for that intervention. The noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, makes a good point in the sen...

I think that it is fair to say that the ultimate upper limit for judges is 75; that of course acc...

I am grateful for that contribution. My noble and learned friend states the difficult issue very ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart, makes an important point about the age of jurors. Of cou...

Moved by

Lord Woolf

70: Clause 64, page 64, line 35, leave out “must” and insert “may...

My Lords, there would have been a time when the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, could have been here, b...

I am most grateful to the noble and learned Lord for giving way. I just want to clarify one thing...

I am grateful to the Minister for drawing the attention of the Committee to that point. I am well...

My Lords, I wish to make three short points in support of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf....

My Lords, first, I apologise that I have not spoken on the Bill before, but I wanted to intervene...

My Lords, I support all the detailed amendments in this group but, more fundamentally, I support ...

My Lords, I hope your Lordships will forgive me if, like other noble Lords, I preface what I say ...

My Lords—

With great respect, I think that it may be our turn.

I do not think that anyone on this side has spoken yet.

Everyone who has spoken so far has ...

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group, particularly Amendments 70, 71, 72 and 73 i...

My Lords, luckily, and happily, I think there is little danger of this debate becoming a closed s...

My Lords, I recognise the points that were made on the other side of the House about delays and t...

My Lords, I want to speak briefly. I was going to save myself until Report, but this afternoon I ...

My Lords, I apologise to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, for missing the opening minutes ...

My Lords, in brief compass I will say, if I may, that I support the amendments and all that has b...

My Lords, I rise briefly to speak to this amendment. It will become apparent very quickly that I ...

My Lords, I, of course, have nothing like the width of experience that has been spoken of already...

I am listening with great attention to what the noble and learned Lord is suggesting. Is he propo...

If that were necessary. I regard it as something that could happen under the existing clause beca...

The noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, makes the very proper point that there is ample preceden...

My Lords, I am not a practising lawyer, but I have experience of being judicially reviewed, and a...

My Lords, this has been, as ever, a very well informed and interesting debate, and it has been pa...

My Lords, this has, correctly, been a lengthy debate, in which views have been expressed by a num...

My Lords, would the case that the noble Lord has just outlined not be one in which the decision b...

It might or might not be “inevitable”, but we suggest “highly likely” would ensure that it would ...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Does he accept that his remarks in his last few sen...

I think that is very much the same comment the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, made, although expressed...

Could the Minister clarify the Government’s position on the point that I understood was raised by...

I was going to come on to this, but it is a highly pertinent point. The position as I understand ...

May I press my noble friend the Minister a little further on that? As I read the clause as drafte...

I do not think that I can expand much on my previous answer. If it makes no difference, it is

The Minister seeks to make a distinction between the court’s ability to grant relief and its abil...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, but with very great respect I think that we are going over the s...

Would the Minister be grateful for a copy of De Smith?

The case is George v Secretary of State for the Environment. I omitted one or two pages of my spe...

The noble Lord has not responded to a very specific question from my noble friend Lord Beecham, w...

I am glad to have that intervention from the noble Baroness. In fact, it reminds me that I did no...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for the careful way in which he has sought to reply to th...

I am sorry to interrupt but I do not want to raise expectations inappropriately. I think that the...

One has at least to be thankful for small mercies, even if, in your view, they do not go nearly f...

I am not entirely clear about the Minister’s position in relation to the process. Assuming that t...

An applicant now may fail at the permission stage if the outcome would be inevitable, given the p...

Would the mover of the amendment confirm that he is seeking leave to withdraw it?

Yes.

Moved by

Lord Beecham

73F: Clause 65, page 66, line 9, leave out from “specified” to ...

My Lords, the amendments in this group essentially stem from the third report of the Delegated Po...

My Lords, I have not proposed any amendments to Clause 65, but I fully support what the noble Lor...

My Lords—

My Lords, I think that the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell of Surbiton, might wish to speak.

My Lords, I wish to add my voice to that of the noble Lord, Lord Beecham. Under these provisions,...

My Lords, it is unusual for the Chief Whip to intervene at this moment, just before the Minister ...