Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]

My Lords, Amendment 1 in my name seeks to add a new clause to the Bill that would require the Sec...

My Lords, red notices are indeed controversial because they are open to abuse by authoritarian re...

My Lords, if I may, I shall raise one small point. We are talking here about the ability to effec...

My Lords, I assume that the process of extradition occurs under judicial control after the arrest...

I support what my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay just said. There is a fundamental distinct...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have made their points on these amendments and the noble Lo...

Did my noble friend notice that the President of the United States has just taken credit for 3,00...

A judge would take a view on whether something was politically motivated. Something blatantly pol...

I understand that, and we have the protection that the request has to go before a judge but, in t...

I think my noble friend is referring to the Extradition Act itself, not the pre-extradition arres...

I am happy to do that; I merely say to my noble friend that I have tabled the amendment and wish ...

We will get on to my noble friend’s point, but we use Parliament to make law rather than to make ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate. I am obviously happy to w...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

3: The Schedule, page 2, leave out lines 17 to 19

Memb...

My Lords, I tabled this amendment following the speech of the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Cl...

I rise briefly to welcome the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay. If he will now be coveri...

My Lords, I also support this amendment. Would you believe it, there is a judge on duty all weeke...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their words of welcome. There will, indeed, be plenty to keep u...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord. It is questionable whether the word “brought” requires th...

To be clear to the noble and learned Lord, it is the statutory intention that the person should b...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord again. This is his first outing and we are throwing bounce...

I thank noble Lords for their forbearance on this, my first outing. It is our intention to replic...

My Lords, I did not expect it to go in this direction, but I thank the noble Lord for his explana...

I shall wait until the noble Baroness has finished.

I think I pretty much have finished.

I think the position is that, as times have changed and we are more modern than we once were, a j...

My Lords, we have just heard from two very experienced former members of the judiciary. The noble...

As my noble friend Lord Paddick says, this is what Committee is about. He has reminded me that so...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

4: The Schedule, page 3, line 9, at end insert “and

(e...

My Lords, I beg leave to move Amendment 4 and will speak to my Amendments 11, 11A and 11C.

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Amendment 5 in this group is in my name. It would simply put “National Crime Agency” into the Bil...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, and the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for their points on th...

I do not think the Minister was long-winded; it is quite a long group of amendments. I am gratefu...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

6: The Schedule, page 3, line 34, leave out “, vary”

M...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 6; I also have Amendments 7, 9 and 10 in this group. I start wi...

My Lords, I very much support this Bill. My Amendment 11B relates to the names of territories tha...

My Lords, I support Amendment 9. As I indicated at Second Reading, I support the Bill. There is a...

My Lords, I cannot match the noble and learned Lord’s eloquence, except I remember that Lord Bing...

My Lords, I add my general support to the proposition and arguments that have been made. When I h...

My Lords, Amendment 6 is a very good probing amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee. As I...

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. The amendments before us relate to the...

Will my noble friend give way?

Not at the moment. If my noble friend could wait until I have finished my comments, I will be hap...

I thank my noble friend the Minister. I realise what she is saying and acknowledge the care with ...

On the point about taking the countries one by one, and the group that a country is in, as I said...

My Lords, I will say a word on Amendment 9. I obviously agree with what has been said by a number...

My Lords, this is an interesting group. With regard to the United States and one of the Five Eyes...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

12: The Schedule, page 10, line 14, leave out sub-paragraph ...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 13, while Amendment 14 in the name of the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 14 in this group. I owe the Committee an apology for not add...

My Lords, let us just look at what we are saying in paragraph 29(2): “Let’s pass this Bill, which...

My Lords, I feel very strongly that although we may have disagreed on the subject of the United S...

I do not have many remarks to make on this and I could not think of a quixotic quote. However, I ...

I thank noble Lords for the points they have made and I hope to be able to allay any fears around...

I thank the Minister very much for explaining that. I am reassured to a large extent by what she ...

I am very happy to do that.

My Lords, I acknowledged that the regulations referred to in paragraph 29(2) must be within parag...

Tabled by

Lord Inglewood

14: The Schedule, page 10, line 25, at end insert—

“( ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her words and put on record, which I have not yet done this af...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

15: The Schedule, page 10, line 29, leave out ...

My Lords, the Government have laid Amendment 15 to reflect Section 2 of the Senedd and Elections ...

I am very happy to support this amendment. While looking at it, I was thinking that Members of th...

I will try to do that. It is a technical point to which I do not know the answer.

My Lords, it might assist the noble Lord if I point out to him that they are Aelodau Senedd, or A...