Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

On an important point at this juncture and before he goes any further, will the Minister give an ...

No, I will not give that reassurance. I hope noble Lords will none the less welcome this signific...

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

My Lords, once again I admire the skilful advocacy of the Minister, this time in his presentation...

My Lords, unlike the Minister and the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, whose vast experience of the c...

My Lords, I wish I could support the Minister. I am most grateful to him for all he has done rece...

My Lords, I am a patron of a secure unit in Exeter, the Atkinson unit, which at the moment has tr...

My Lords, the arguments on this issue have already been well developed today by other noble Lords...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, largely because since this House last discus...

I will ask the Minister three short questions, but before I do, perhaps I may give a little reass...

My Lords, I had not taken a deeply close interest in what this amendment is about until I listene...

My Lords, I do not understand to which procedure the noble Lord referred. I can see no example of...

My Lords, I wonder whether my noble friend the Minister could add two further questions to the th...

My Lords, I would briefly like to speak on Motion A1, which would ensure that girls and younger c...

My Lords, I was the Minister responsible for the police and the probation service for one year, a...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Elton, on what he has said and the courage that he ...

My Lords, will the Minister briefly explain precisely why the Government feel unable to take the ...

My Lords, is the Minister aware that teenagers and pre-teenagers are the most racist groups, part...

My Lords, I apologise for not speaking before but I have faced two family bereavements. The Gover...

My Lords, this has been a lengthy debate in which we have had some important contributions from a...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend but he has plainly misunderstood what I was saying. I am ...

I am grateful for that correction or clarification by the noble Lord. It is important to remember...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I have heard him make this assurance previously. I ...

These institutions are important. Those who have seen the plans will appreciate that they are bri...

My Lords, I plead guilty to the indictment framed by the noble Lord of not having taken part in a...

As I indicated, there are inspectorates —HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Ofsted, the Youth Justice Bo...

My Lords, before my noble friend sits down, perhaps he would reconsider the issue of whether it i...

My Lords, before my noble friend answers that question, will he confirm to my noble friend Lord G...

I thought that I had made it reasonably clear that there will be the laying of the report. That i...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for his summing up but, as he will no doubt understa...

Before my noble friend sits down, will he be so kind as to give a little more information about t...

No, I do not have any statistics, I am afraid.

Motion B1

Moved by

Lord Pannick

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister. His door has been open in recent weeks to discuss m...

My Lords, it is a measure of the importance of the matters that we are now debating, and upon whi...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way, and I know that what he is saying is being said i...

It is, of course, entirely a matter of conscience for the noble Lord and others, and I would not ...

My Lords, I support Motion B1 in the name of my noble friend Lord Pannick. Noble Lords will know ...

My Lords, it is always important to listen to what is said by the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell o...

I am only interrupting to agree absolutely with what the noble and learned Lord said. The Ministe...

I am grateful to the Minister for making that clear. I was not aware that the Lord Chancellor had...

My Lords, I do not want to disappoint the noble Lord opposite but it does not need to be a partic...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way on this point. I said that I had no statistics; I...

I have listened carefully to the examples that my noble friend put forward, but has he any more? ...

If the noble Lord had looked at the website in which all the examples were set out in the build-u...

I am sure that most of my noble friends, and noble Lords generally, have seen those examples. I h...

My Lords, I will not detain the House for more than a few minutes. I listened carefully to the la...

Mr Geoffrey Cox, a Conservative Member of Parliament, asked the Secretary of State for Justice wh...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Deben, and the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell of Surbiton, I s...

The amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, will do no more than bring the law into a...

My Lords, I strongly support what my noble friend Lord Deben said in a truly remarkable, powerful...

My Lords, when I intervened on the Minister and asked for the evidence or indications to underpin...

My Lords, perhaps I may add an element of balance to this debate, although balance may not be exa...

Is my noble friend really saying that the legitimate environmental concerns of people who have mi...

Indeed, but the point about judicial review is that it is a technical discussion about the proces...

Is the noble Lord really suggesting that the whole planning appeals procedure should be abandoned...

I am personally aware from my experience in this House and as the former Member of Parliament for...

I want to challenge the noble Lord. Is he saying in this House that Travellers do not have the ri...

No. What I am saying is that the judicial reviews raised by Travellers in Bromley were ultimately...

I have taken advantage of now being able to look up online in this House the suggestions as to wh...

I cannot comment on a churlish Government interfering more and more in the minutiae of daily life...

I want to make one simple point. Even if the noble Lord is right that there are some cases of abu...

That is precisely why, as I understand it, my noble friend is introducing in a later amendment a ...

That is not correct on the first amendment. There is no qualification being introduced by the Gov...

I totally agree. I said on a later clause. Here, we are dealing with a situation where the actual...

The Government have repeatedly characterised this clause as being concerned with cases involving ...

My Lords, the question in this particular amendment is a simple one. The courts have developed la...

My Lords, I begin my concluding remarks, which will be short, by saying how much I agree with muc...

Before the Minister sits down, I wish to ask one question: how does he answer the second part of ...

It is a matter entirely for the House. The whole of the speech was before the House of Commons. I...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister. He has been put in a quite impossible position, not...

Moved by

Lord Faulks

My Lords, we now come to Clause 65 and its sister clause, Clause 66. As introduced, Clause 65 wou...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

My Lords, the amendments that were approved on Report by your Lordships’ House by a majority of 3...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Perhaps he could assist the House by saying ...

I would suggest that one should look up the average cost of a judicial review application and say...

My Lords, throughout the passage of the Bill, my concern with these clauses has been that they wo...

My Lords, I had understood the Government’s proposed amendment as conferring power on the rule co...

My Lords, I have listened, of course with enormous respect, to the noble and learned Lord who has...

I am a complete outsider on this, but I am now confused. The examples that the noble Lord has giv...

The noble Lord, Lord Rooker, has, extremely uncharacteristically, if I may say so, missed the poi...

My Lords, the noble Lord is quite right. In my experience—which I am sorry to say is rather large...

My Lords, I am moved to continue with Wales because I acted for my community—the Gresford communi...

I wish to support the Motion of the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, and resist the Minister’s Motion on...

My Lords, this has been a very useful debate. The questions of the information available to judge...

My Lords, as I understand Clause 65, it involves an insertion into Section 31(3) of the Senior Co...

That is entirely correct. The discretion would exist on whether to award costs. This is the discr...

I have two questions for the Minister. First, will he clarify that the figures for claimants’ cos...

In answer to my noble friend’s first question, I did use the word “straightforward” and that is e...

My Lords, this is a really puzzling matter. The Minister accepts that a threshold figure should b...

Moved by

Lord Faulks

My Lords, Clause 67 concerns those who intervene voluntarily in a judicial review and would see t...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

My Lords, I shall be brief, given the time, given that your Lordships’ House has debated this iss...

My Lords, it has been a short debate. The issues have been fully covered at previous debates and ...

My Lords, it is not an acceptable compromise for the Government to bring forward a clause, with a...

My Lords, we turn to Part 4 of the Bill, and specifically the clause concerning procedural defect...