Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

I am grateful to the Minister for that explanation. With regard to the other examples that she ha...

My Lords, I have said all along, and the proponents of the amendments that we have discussed have...

My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken in this debate. I am particularly grateful t...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

152: Clause 65, leave out Clause 65 and insert the following n...

My Lords, we come to Part 5. I shall also speak to Amendments 167, 168 and 169. I am grateful to ...

My Lords, I want to speak to Amendment 152, to which I have added my name. I welcome Clause 65, b...

My Lords, I declare an interest as the president of the Road Danger Reduction Forum. I point out ...

My Lords, I was very happy to put my name to all these amendments. As you will be aware, the Cros...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for his introduction to this group, and...

My Lords, I want to provide my support for a remark made by the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, in the...

My Lords, I will speak briefly. The Road Traffic Act and all its many successors have left us wit...

My Lords, I echo the sentiments of the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, in thanking the coalition of or...

My Lords, I had proposed to speak specifically to my noble and learned friend Lord Hope’s amendme...

I will, once again, I hope, be relatively brief. We welcome Clause 65 and the Government’s action...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, and others for speaking to these amendm...

Is the Minister saying that if we drafted this slightly better, with “dangerous driving” included...

I will be very careful here because the law in this area is really complex. I was going to say th...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I point out that he is arguing for the status quo when we have a...

I am afraid that, with respect, the noble Baroness is wrong on both points. There are provisions ...

I also point out that when the Minister demonstrated the Dutch reach, he did so from the point of...

The noble Baroness and I are sitting on opposite sides of the House. If I was driving, I would no...

My Lords, my noble friend has been very helpful, but I am slightly worried that he does not fully...

I am certainly aware of the differences between dangerous driving and careless driving. Dangerous...

My Lords, we have had a fascinating debate on these amendments and I have no regrets about tablin...

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

153: Clause 66, page 63, line 21, after “vehicle...

My Lords, I will speak to this amendment and my other amendments in this group. First, though, I ...

My Lords, the noble Baroness has made a powerful speech, which I find entirely compelling. My onl...

My Lords, I am probably alone on this one: some years ago I went away from my wedding service in ...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support my noble friend. It is ludicrous that pedicabs are regulated ...

My Lords, the noble Baroness has made a very strong point about an issue which applies only in a ...

My Lords, I too agree that the noble Baroness made a compelling speech, with which a lot of peopl...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Stowell for comprehensively setting out the case ...

My Lords, I will certainly withdraw the amendment. I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister ...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

155: Clause 66, page 63, line 28, at end insert—

In moving this amendment, to which the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, has put her name, I will s...

My Lords, as the noble and learned Lord explained very effectively, Clause 66 inserts a new Secti...

My Lords, I have added my name to the suggestion that this clause should not stand part of the Bi...

My Lords, I support everything that noble Lords have said so far. Unless the clause is significan...

My Lords, as this is about causing serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving, the state...

The noble Lord has made a very interesting speech, but is it right that negligence and the harm t...

That is an interesting point. Manslaughter can obviously be by negligence.

Gross negligence.

Gross negligence, yes—although it is interesting that the word “gross” is put before it. But thes...

My Lords, there have been some powerful contributions to this debate. I agree with the comments t...

My Lords, can I just ask the noble Lord, Lord Thomas, why he thinks that an offence in the transp...

Driving is an activity which is universal. Equally, the mistake—or negligence—is also universal, ...

My Lords, I very much agree with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, and other noble Lords who...

My Lords, there is an obvious difference between an offence of careless driving and a health and ...

My Lords, I wonder whether I should say that I am not going to make a second speech polishing up ...

My Lords, I have to say that I find myself in the somewhat invidious situation of supporting the ...

My Lords, the good thing is that the party opposite is being consistent, because it introduced th...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, objects to Clause 66 standing part of the Bill a...

With his enormous experience of various areas of the law, can the Minister think of any example o...

I wonder whether health and safety is not, in fact, an example. This is not my area of the law, a...

I understand the Minister’s argument. My question is whether there are any actual, practical exam...

Of course, and I will write to the noble Lord with an answer. I just want to be clear what exam q...

I am considering the proposed offence of carelessness. To be clear, my question is whether there ...

I would much rather the Minister answered that question.

The noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, is very kind. I was going to say that, because I am stand...

I simply wanted to add that, when the Minister writes to us, perhaps he could give due considerat...

I am happy to deal with that in the letter.

My Lords, on a couple of occasions, my noble friend the Minister has said that the only disposal ...

I accept that it may be a severe penalty. It depends who you are dealing with, and the circumstan...

I hope the Minister has sat down, because I thought it was time for me to wind up. I am very grat...

Moved by

Lord Tope

156: Clause 68, page 65, line 9, at end insert—

“(c) a local...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 156, I will also speak to Amendment 163.

First, I must declar...

My Lords, I have put my name to this amendment, because it is a really useful proposal from Londo...

My Lords, I support these amendments. I do so as a resident and ratepayer of the London Borough o...

My Lords, I am afraid that I take a converse view on this. London has a massive problem with incr...

My Lords, I do not think that my noble friend is proposing to reduce the speed limit. It is about...

My Lords, this is a very ambitious amendment from my noble friend. It would involve significant c...

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, I do not intend to stand here and announce our...

I apologise to the Committee: I was not going to say anything, but I could not resist. There is c...

I thank noble Lords for taking part in this short but very interesting debate. As the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister, particularly for revealing how close he came to a crimin...