Victims and Prisoners Bill

My Lords, very briefly, I can only entirely agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove. If somet...

My Lords, to answer the noble Lord’s rhetorical question, or perhaps pre-empting it, the Justice ...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a member of the justice committee, and I endorse everything th...

My Lords, I agree with everyone who has spoken so far. I say to the Minister that, given the ment...

I find myself in a difficult situation, because in the previous group I had said that we should n...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, and others, who have spoken in this part ...

My Lords—

I was just going to finish my sentence, but of course I give way to the noble Baroness.

I am sorry for being premature. I totally see the Minister’s point about the challenge of taking ...

My Lords, I am grateful for that intervention and clarification. Perhaps I could explain why the ...

I am sorry to intervene. I have been listening and have found the arguments very persuasive. If t...

The Government’s view is, first, that there is no need to go down this route at all, because the ...

I am sorry, I am not a legal person, so I am just trying to join the dots, if you will bear with ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her intervention. Let me have another go at explaining it. ...

No, you could not.

Well, that is not the Government’s advice.

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I am sorry, but I think there is a miscommunication here. The courts may be saying that these are...

Before the noble and learned Lord gets up—I know that is the inverse of the usual statement—perha...

If I may say so, sometimes one is in the middle of the flow of one’s argument and people jump up ...

I do not want to stop the Minister when he is in full flow. I understand how difficult it must be...

I think the short answer is that the purposes of those later clauses is to impose a statutory dut...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who participated in this debate.

I remind noble Lords that...

Moved by

Baroness Chakrabarti

24: Clause 3, page 3, line 28, at end insert “and the C...

My Lords, at the risk of trying the Committee’s patience, we are now talking about the role of th...

My Lords, the role of the commissioner is to review the operation of the victims’ code. The 2004 ...

My Lords, I will amplify what the noble Baroness just said by actually quoting from the Governmen...

My Lords, I have my name to Amendment 49 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, on the...

From these Benches, I will be extremely brief, because I agree with everything that has been said...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, said it right when she said that it is time to give t...

I am very grateful, once again, to all noble Lords who have spoken to this group of amendments, w...

I am mindful of the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove: because the Victims’ Commissi...

My Lords, I am sure that that point deserves full consideration alongside other points.

I am grateful to all noble Lords in the Committee, in particular the Minister. He will forgive me...

Moved by

Lord Russell of Liverpool

30: After Clause 4, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, we are starting this group, but I suspect that we will stop it in about 29 minutes, so ...

My Lords, this group is about giving teeth to the toothless tiger that is the victims’ code. To b...

My Lords, I hope I can do this in the time allotted, as they say.

I shall speak to Amendmen...