Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

My Lords, I am sorry I missed the beginning of the noble Lord’s introduction of this amendment bu...

My Lords, I, too, support this amendment. By the same token that the House approved the earlier a...

My Lords, I am grateful once again to noble Lords for their contributions—brief but helpful. Your...

I am grateful to the Minister for his detailed explanation, which, far from being overlong, was v...

Moved by

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

174A: Clause 76, leave out Clause 76 and inse...

My Lords, I moved amendments in these terms in Committee and so I will try to be brief, although ...

My Lords, Clause 76 allows for judicial review claims on issues which relate entirely or partly t...

My Lords, I am rather surprised that my noble friend regards my performance on this Bill as merit...

Moved by

Lord Faulks

175: Before Schedule 11, insert the following new Schedule—

Moved by

Lord Pannick

176: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—

“L...

My Lords, Amendment 176 raises an issue of some constitutional importance. The proposed new claus...

Having been given that cue by the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, I cannot resist the temptation to ris...

My Lords, I strongly support the two amendments in this group. My noble friend Lord Pannick has e...

My Lords, many cases have been put before us in these debates in which we have argued the facts. ...

My Lords, in 1949, when the Legal Aid and Advice Act was brought in, the state of affairs in this...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Beecham referred to the Joint Committee on Human Rights report on ...

My Lords, this has been a passionate debate. We heard from the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, in close...

My noble friend will entirely solve my problem if he can say absolutely directly that nothing tha...

I am sorry that my noble friend is not satisfied with the explanation that I have been rather lab...

Did the Minister really say that the application of a residence test does not—

I am not talking about the residence test at all. I shall come to that shortly, but it is a diffe...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend, but does he not accept that the procedure of dealing wit...

I am unable to answer that specifically. I am afraid that I do not know. I accept that there is a...

I am very grateful to the Minister. As I mentioned in opening this short debate, Amendment 176 ra...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way, but does he accept that there is a distincti...

If you give an assurance that the scope of legal aid for judicial review is not being reduced or ...

My Lords—

I am sorry to remind the noble Lord, but this is Report and nobody should speak after the Ministe...

I am very happy if the noble Lord wishes to clarify a matter. He does not; so be it. For my part,...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

178: Clause 79, page 74, line 24, leave out “supplementary,”