Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [HL]

Sorry, there is this old rule in this House that when the Speaker is up, Members are down. Perhap...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

1: Clause 1, page 1, line 19, at end insert—

“(4A) The Sec...

The Bill is intended to assist in the fight against serious crime, not least terrorism, by making...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

2: Clause 1, leave out from beginning to “given” in subsection ...

My Lords, unusually, I shall be supporting Amendment 1 but I shall also speak to Amendments 2 and...

I thank both noble Lords for speaking to their amendments today and express my gratitude to all M...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. Unless she wishes to contradict me, I think she just sai...

I do contradict the noble Lord. I am asking noble Lords not to tie the Government’s hands in nego...

Forgive me, but I do not see the difference between what I said and what the Minister has just sa...

I thank the Minister for the Government’s response to my amendment—or rather the amendment I have...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 21, leave out from “...

My Lords, the Government recognise that, when it comes to agreements for direct access to data, i...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

5: Clause 1, in subsection (5A), after “2010” insert “and it...

My Lords, we welcome the Government’s significant movement towards the use of the treaty procedur...

My Lords, I am sorry that I have not been very clear. I am very happy, should the noble Baroness ...

Of course I am happy to do that. I am sorry, I thought that was implied. I do not wish any more e...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

6: Clause 3, page 4, line 21, at end insert—

“(8A) “Journa...

The Bill extends the ability of law enforcement agencies through overseas production orders to ob...

My Lords, from these Benches we had an amendment in Committee requiring the court to be,

“s...

My Lords, the Bill provides that journalistic material which is non-confidential can be obtained ...

I may have misheard the Minister and therefore misunderstood her argument, but she seemed to be s...

I think I have already explained at length why it is not necessary. If Clause 12 were to be amend...

So there is no objection to what my noble friend has tabled; the Minister is saying simply that i...

That is what I am saying, yes.

The protection of sources in relation to confidential journalistic data is very important to the ...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

7: Clause 5, page 6, line 7, leave out “the judge has reason...

My Lords, Amendment 7 is an amendment to Clause 5, which deals with the contents of an order. If ...

I thank the noble Baroness for moving her amendment and for raising this point again. Perhaps my ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. Much of what we said was what we rehearsed in Committee....

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

9: Clause 11, page 9, line 36, leave out “may” and insert “s...

My Lords, Amendment 9 is grouped with Amendment 10. I thought that the point about court rules mi...

My Lords, the noble Baroness has suggested amendments stipulating that court rules must make spec...

My Lords, we have learned about the draft of the new rules and I am grateful for that. It is obvi...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

12: After Clause 16, insert the following new Clause—

“Pr...

My Lords, were we to leave the European Union, the EU would examine our data protection regime to...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, raised an issue about which Act would take precedence in ...

I thank both noble Lords for their points. There has been nothing in our own domestic law that re...

I am grateful to the Minister. I understand that she has just said that a communications service ...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

13: Clause 17, page 14, line 15, at end insert...

My Lords, I explained in Committee that Clause 7(1) creates a power for the judge to vary or revo...

My Lords, I think it must be lucky 13 for the Minister. However, I have a question. It may be tha...

The answer is yes.

With the leave of the House, I suggest that the Government return to this tiny thing before the n...