Victims and Prisoners Bill

My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lady Morgan, who is sorry not to be here today, I shall sp...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 106 in the name of and on behalf of the noble Baroness, La...

My Lords, I support Amendment 115 and would certainly have put my name to it had there been any s...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to my Amendments 103 and 103A, which the noble Baroness, Lady Thor...

My Lords, I support most of the amendments in this group, which is quite lengthy. One of my key p...

My Lords, I support effectively all the amendments in this group, but your Lordships will be reli...

My Lords, I will make three brief observations. First, I warmly commend Amendment 115. The law ne...

My Lords, I will make a very brief point, following on from that made by my noble and learned fri...

My Lords, in this group, I will speak only to Amendments 78 and 79, in the names of the noble Bar...

I am very grateful to my noble friend for so admirably speaking to Amendments 78 and 79—I will no...

My Lords, with this group of amendments we arrive at a particularly sensitive and emotive set of ...

Can the noble Earl clarify that he is saying that it is up to the victim to take the action?

The law is there to enable them to do that. However, where they have an advocate, that person can...

May I pick up on the Minister’s response to the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton? The whole problem ...

I will be very happy to do that because I fully recognise the seriousness of the issue, and in pa...

The noble Earl has laid out, in his usual exemplary way, the way that the system is meant to work...

I have heard the strength of feeling on this, and I will be more than happy to take the issues ra...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Earl for giving way. I ask whether the code will, in fact, i...

I recognise the seriousness of the issue. I have no advice in my brief on that, but I will be hap...

My Lords, it is exactly as the noble Lord, Lord Marks, said. He put it so succinctly, more so tha...

My Lords, I will also come in on this. I have huge respect for the noble Earl, and I have huge re...

My Lords, I am the first to agree that a code of practice takes us only a certain distance. We al...

I am grateful to the noble Earl for giving way. I have not spoken in this group so far, because I...

My Lords, having tasked the Law Commission, as we have, with preparing a full-scale set of recomm...

I want to make a technical point about the Law Commission review, which I have full respect for. ...

I hear what my noble friend has said. I was able to give what I hoped was helpful information in ...

My Lords, I am grateful for that response to the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay. I did a report on r...

I would be happy to write to my noble friend.

Amendment 173 seeks to extend Clause 24 to th...

I assume the noble Earl is asking me to withdraw my amendment.

I thank all noble Lords who ...

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Baroness Chakrabarti

82: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause—