Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, for introducing the Bill and for introducing it s...

My Lords, as I did three years ago, I welcome the Bill and congratulate my noble friend Lady Cox ...

My Lords, first, let me thank the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, for her Private Member’s Bill. Over t...

My Lords, I am very happy to speak in support of this Bill for three reasons. First, I supported ...

My Lords, it is hard to believe that circumstances in the United Kingdom in the year 2015 for som...

My Lords, I pay warm tribute to my noble friend Lady Cox for her skill, tenacity and courage in b...

My Lords, this is a timely and important Bill, and I pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Cox,...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, on bringing forward this timely Bill. The ...

My Lords, my old friend the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan of Rogart, the ninth speaker in this debat...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, I join the consensus of concern. I agree with my nob...

My Lords, the breadth of the compassion of my noble friend Lady Cox is equalled only by the depth...

My Lords, I am sure that your Lordships have heard everything about the noble Baroness, Lady Cox,...

My Lords, I say at the outset that I have met and spoken to many people across the Muslim communi...

I apologise for interrupting the noble Lord. As a matter of fact in sharia law, if a man wishes t...

No. Under sharia law he does not have to do that. If sharia councils make unfair decisions, these...

Is the noble Lord saying that there is equal treatment of women and men under sharia or is he say...

It depends on what the noble Baroness means by discrimination.

I see that the noble Lord has not found that out yet.

That might be amusing to the noble Baroness but it is not amusing to me.

It is not funny to me—I am a woman.

I will continue. In the same way as sharia councils cannot claim to make legally binding decision...

My Lords, I have long much admired the campaigns of the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, in favour of hu...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, for introducing this debate so effectively. I adm...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Cox. It takes real courage to bring and k...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, for leading us into this critical area of re-establishing B...

Does the noble Lord appreciate that these are not sharia courts; they are sharia councils and the...

I heard all the explanations given by the noble Lord, Lord Sheikh, previously and I reject them c...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on once again raising this issue. She has campaigned ...

My Lords, in supporting the Bill I join in with the well-deserved tributes made to the noble Baro...

Does the noble Lord feel that it is for the community to take remedial action? This is how I feel...

I hope the community will take immediate action but, in my view, the law needs to take action as ...

My Lords, I begin as others have done, by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, on bringin...

I would say wholeheartedly that our jury system should not be diminished. My concern is that a gr...

In this country, at the moment at least, we do not have jury panels questioned by lawyers to find...

My Lords, the concern is not that the law is in place but that it is not understood and therefore...

Let me reassure my noble friend that of course it is well understood that one of the main burdens...

Does my noble friend appreciate that there are certain women who obtain a decree absolute but who...

The Government wish people to make free choices on these matters. If someone wishes to make a cho...

I am grateful to my noble friend, who is disappointing me a little. Does he not feel that the Gov...

Indeed, and if my noble friend will bear with me, I will come to some of the steps which have bee...

My Lords, I am deeply grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken and for the widespread support ...