Judicial Review and Courts Bill

In the absences of the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, who has unfortunately caught Covid, ...

My Lords, Clause 1 gives judges a new power. I suggest that this is a power which enables them to...

My Lords, as I have reminded your Lordships’ House before, I have no legal training and so I will...

My Lords, I am in the happy position of having somebody agree with me on every point—but not ever...

My Lords, I oppose these amendments. The power to make a prospective quashing order brings clear ...

My Lords, the Labour Party supports the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, to remove t...

My Lords, I begin by wishing the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, well and the noble Lord, Lord Pannick...

My Lords, before I seek to test the opinion of the House—which I propose to do—I will make two sh...

Moved by

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

2: Clause 1, page 1, leave out lines 15 to 18...

Moved by

Lord Etherton

4: Clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 24 to 32

Member’s e...

I wish to test the opinion of the House.

Moved by

Lord Etherton

5: Clause 2, leave out Clause 2 and insert the following new C...

This amendment is supported by the Law Society, the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and the Pu...

My Lords, the IRAL came to the firm conclusion that Cart ought to go. It did so carefully conside...

My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, to wh...

My Lords, we strongly support Amendment 5, moved by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, wh...

My Lords, a Cart judicial review is a challenge of a decision of the Upper Tribunal to refuse per...

I should like to make three essential points by way of reply to what has been said. I am extremel...

Moved by

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

7: Clause 3, page 5, line 37, at end insert “and<...

My Lords, this whole group of amendments is about criminal procedure divisions. It is not my inte...

I wish to speak very briefly to Amendment 17. As I think I said previously, there has been though...

My Lords, I will add very little to what the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, said in moving his amendm...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, for putting down these ame...

Just to explore that point a little more, does that mean that somebody who changes their plea to ...

I think that is correct, but let me write to the noble Lord on that point. My understanding is th...

My Lords, when the Minister says “monitor” and “publish”, what we need to see is proper, in-depth...

My Lords, I was just about to come to that point. I have heard what the noble and learned Lord ha...

My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 7.

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

16: Clause 13, page 34, line 24, leave out “by sect...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

19: Clause 39, page 53, line 27, leave out “follows...

My Lords, I am sorry but one of the problems of doing this online is that, when the system freeze...

Put not your trust in tablets.

Keep taking the tablets, my Lords. When we last debated these clauses, a number of noble Lords, i...

My Lords, Amendment 21 would ensure that certain safeguards were met before a coroner could disco...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly to Amendment 28 standing in my name. I would be grateful if the...

My Lords, I want to say how much I support the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Albans in his...

My Lords, I shall respond to the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman. Amen...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

20: Clause 39, page 53, line 33, at end insert—

Moved by

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

25: After Clause 44, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, this group of amendments is about legal aid provision for bereaved people in inquests. ...

My Lords, I do not think that the Government should hide behind the fact that an inquest is inqui...

My Lords, as the Minister said a short while ago, this is a very ancient office, but the genius o...

I rise not to add any contribution on the legal side of things but just to add a little moral out...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions to this short debate. I am conscio...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate and have supported these amendme...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

29: After Clause 47, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I am conscious that this is the last group, and I hope that we can end Report on a poin...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the Minister for tabling this amendment. I strongly support ...

My Lords, we very much welcome this amendment and thank the Minister very much for responding so ...

My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for these amendments and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Et...

My Lords, I also endorse what was said and support the Bill, particularly because I struggled bac...

My Lords, I am grateful to everyone and look forward to the noble Lord’s support on issues where ...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

30: Clause 49, page 58, line 24, leave out “and” an...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

32: Clause 50, page 59, line 3, at end insert—

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

38: Clause 50, page 59, line 21, at end insert—

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

39: Schedule 2, page 76, line 4, at end insert—

My Lords, I am aware that we are without the Minister, so shall we have a brief pause while he is...

My Lords, in the absence of the Minister, who is not too far away, I suggest that the House do no...