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Legal Services Bill [HL]

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Tuesday, 23 January 2007, in the House of Lords.

Legal Services Bill (HL). Lords Committee stage third day. Clause 70 agreed to. Clause 71 under consideration. Part 2 of 2 records.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

688 c1077-94

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Legal Services Bill (HL). In two volumes. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 9-EN also published.
Thursday, 23 November 2006
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Whitty | 688 c1080-1 (Link to this contribution) It is part of the present structure that that aspect of, for example, buying a house is, theoretical...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1081 (Link to this contribution) We created alternative business structures under Section 66 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 199...

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Lord Whitty | 688 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) I suppose I need to respond to the noble Lord. I apologise that I was not in the Chamber at the begi...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c1080 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord not agree that if that were to happen, competition in all sorts of fields in his...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c1077-9 (Link to this contribution) The Minister told us that the alternative business structures, as set out in the Bill, are to achiev...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c1082 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that I did say that but that was in the context of the one person who says, ““I am a lay p...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c1081-2 (Link to this contribution) I really cannot allow the Minister to get away with that, however pleasantly she puts it across. I a...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1082 (Link to this contribution) Then the noble Lord will realise that I must have misheard him when he said that the noble Lord, Lor...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1092 (Link to this contribution) It does not result in the full panoply of business structures. That is why I made the point about lo...

Lord Lyell of Markyate | 688 c1092 (Link to this contribution) Can the noble Baroness enlighten us in relation to what I think the City of London solicitors are ge...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1094 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to detain the noble Lord, but the issue is the same whether it is a major company comi...

Lord Kingsland | 688 c1093-4 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness will not be surprised to hear that I am disappointed by her reply. This is a situ...

Lord Evans of Temple Guiting | 688 c1094 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.

Lord Kingsland | 688 c1094 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness has sought to underpin further the view that she expressed earlier. I shall go aw...

Lord Lyell of Markyate | 688 c1093 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for interrupting but I want the noble Baroness to answer my question, not speak motherho...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1093 (Link to this contribution) The principles that we have set out within the Bill recognise that this is a low-risk situation. It ...

Lord Lyell of Markyate | 688 c1093 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness and if she writes to me I shall understand better; possibly she ...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1093 (Link to this contribution) I was not trying to be motherhood and apple pie, not least because I do not like apple pie. I was tr...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) I hope the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, will forgive me for returning to the suggestion of a...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1086-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the noble and learned Lord. Given that this is about members of the legal profession ta...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1083 (Link to this contribution) Hear, hear.

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1082-3 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the noble Lord believes—reasonably, I am sure—that the legal profession is for the...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 688 c1084 (Link to this contribution) I intervene to ask one question: I have listened to the whole debate from beginning to end. Why has ...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1083-4 (Link to this contribution) It is his choice, not mine. I have already told him I think that he should. He talked about pro bono...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c1085 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, raised an important point. The whole question of pilot scheme...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend may recall that I said some while ago in answer to the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, t...

Lord Lyell of Markyate | 688 c1086 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to be able to intervene, because in a sense I am a latecomer to this debate—...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1085-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for putting forward those propositions. LDPs come into force when th...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1088 (Link to this contribution) The proposal that the AA should be given an advantage—which is certainly how it would be perceived b...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is quoting Sir David Clementi, and particularly Part F of his report. Yet he did not re...

Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 688 c1089 (Link to this contribution) Amendments Nos. 108ZA and 108ZB have been incorrectly marshalled. I shall call Amendment No. 108ZB b...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I do not normally quote myself, but we have a principle in the courts that you can refer, if challen...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to get into the processes for that, because I do not know what they were. In any proc...

Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I have heard the Minister express that view about the difficulty of picking companies. It does not a...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c1090-1 (Link to this contribution) Unsurprisingly, I am not inclined to accept this amendment. I want to explain the basis on which we ...

Lord Lyell of Markyate | 688 c1090 (Link to this contribution) I agree strongly with the points that have been made. I understand that a large number of such situa...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c1090 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my noble friend. It is important to listen to the City of London Law Society i...

Lord Kingsland | 688 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 108ZB: 108ZB: Clause 71 , page 40, line 38, at end insert— ““provided that a b...

Subjects

Consumers

Business

Competition

Legal profession

Fees and charges

Pilot schemes

Regulation

Legal Services Board

Legislation

Legal Services Bill (HL) 2006-07

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