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Legal Services Bill [HL]

Debate on bills on Monday, 16 April 2007, in the House of Lords.
Legal Services Bill (HL). Lords Report stage first day. Part 3 of 3 records.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

691 c91-110, (corrigendum) 212 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Legislative stage

Report stage

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Legal Services Bill (HL). As amended in Committee. In 2 volumes.
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c91 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 28: 28: Schedule 1 , page 116, line 40, leave out paragraph (b) and insert— ““...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 29: 29: Clause 3 , page 2, line 25, at end insert— ““( ) The Board must, so fa...

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Lord Campbell of Alloway | 691 c96 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am obliged to the Minister for giving way. I have one simple question. There seems to be...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 691 c92 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment. There was considerable discussion of this subject in Committee. I...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 691 c92-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, no part of this Bill more exemplifies the gap which has opened up between the assertions o...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 691 c94 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I strongly support this amendment and I was pleased to add my name to those of my noble fr...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c94-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for all contributions. This is an important issue of principle about the rel...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c99 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful. If, rather than tabling the first line and a half of the statement, we...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c99 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would certainly have a look at it. We think that within the different aspects of the leg...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c99 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I completely appreciate that. However, I must confess that in Committee, when we discussed...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 691 c97 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what the Minister has said is welcome. When she comes forward with those figures, will she...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c97-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will commit to do that. I completely accept that from the noble Lord’s perspective it wo...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c98 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for her reply, although I am of course disappointed by ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c99 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for allowing me to interrupt. The point that I was making—though cl...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c96 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my proposition is that we already do that in the Bill. We have addressed the question in t...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was not seeking to rest on Clause 48. The factors in the way that we set up the Legal Se...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 691 c96 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the Minister speaks about costs, I again draw attention to Clause 48. It is not sel...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. I look forward to reading her letter. Until I do...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c103 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have handed over a copy of the letter, and I apologise to the noble Lord; we will get th...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c101 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise, but I have not seen the letter. If the noble Baroness had written to me, it w...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c101-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course it would. I wrote on 22 March and I have a copy of the letter here. I apologise ...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 691 c101 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this debate may be completely unnecessary. In response to the points that my noble friend ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c101 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have taken legal advice, as the noble Lord would expect me to, and I have consulted parl...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 691 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the noble Baroness, I reflected on our exchanges on this amendment in Committee, part...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister says with characteristic generosity that since Committee she has thought abou...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 691 c110 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am obliged to the Minister. I would like the opportunity to consider with care everythin...
Lord Evans of Temple Guiting | 691 c110 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that consideration on Report be now adjourned. Moved accordingly, and, on Q...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 691 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the earlier debate in Committee, the Minister indicated that she thought that proportio...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 691 c105 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment. As my noble friend says, there is no guarantee. Nothing in the Bi...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 691 c106 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, briefly, I support the amendment. It deals with the important question of cost and how it ...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c107 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her response. I know that she has been in correspondence wi...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 691 c103 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may ask the noble Baroness one question. Would she be prepared, with the assista...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c103 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the light of the fact that the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, has not had my letter, I am ...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c103 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful for the noble Baroness’s response. In those circumstances, I think that...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c103 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 31 and 32: 31: Clause 3, page 2, line 33, at end insert ““and”” 32: Clause...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c109-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, although it is essential, as the noble Lord will recognise, that the board can discharge i...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 691 c109 (Link to this contribution) moved AmendmentNo. 39: 39: Clause 7 , leave out Clause 7 The noble Lord said: My Lords, I shall b...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c109 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 36 to 38: 36: Clause 6 , page 3, line 19, leave out ““Secretary of State”” a...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c109 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord. In those circumstances, I beg leave to withdraw the ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not attempting to be at all irresponsible. We are setting up a professional Legal Ser...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c108 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. She said that if the Government issued guidance,...
Lord Evans of Temple Guiting | 691 c109 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, would like an answer in one word, the answer is no: we ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c108 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would be delighted to consider that approach. The noble Lord knows that I am always reas...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c108 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendmen...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c100 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 30: 30: Clause 3 , page 2, line 26, leave out ““, as far as is reasonably prac...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 691 c106-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for this further discussion. I have met with the smaller regulators, and we ...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c108-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 35: 35: After Clause 4 , insert the following new Clause— ““Paralegals (1) The...
Lord Kingsland | 691 c103-5 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 34: 34: Clause 3, page 2, line 36, at end insert— ““(4) In assessing what is p...

Notes

Correction made on 17 April 2007 at 691 c212. In cols. 109 and 110 there is a mistake in the record of which amendments were agreed to at the end of the first day of consideration on Report of the Legal Services Bill. Amendments Nos. 36 and 37 were agreed to formally. The debate that was reported as having taken place on Amendment No. 39 was in fact on Amendment No. 38, which was then withdrawn. Amendment No. 39 was not dealt with at all.

Subjects

Complaints
Costs
Legal profession
Fees and charges
Publications
Regulation
Legal Services Board
Legal Complaints Service

Legislation

Legal Services Bill (HL) 2006-07

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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