Torture (Damages) Bill [HL]

Debate on bills on Friday, 16 May 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Archer of Sandwell. The answering member was Lord Hunt of Kings Heath.

Torture (Damages) Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

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2007-08

Torture (Damages) Bill (HL).
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Bills
House of Lords

Criminal Justice Act 1988
Friday, 29 July 1988
Public acts

Lord Elystan-Morgan | 701 c1216-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, extend my warmest and sincerest congratulations to the noble and learned Lord, Lor...

Lord Borrie | 701 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is probable that most people in this country and elsewhere regard torture as a criminal...

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Lord Woolf | 701 c1219-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am in the advantageous position of having heard the speeches that preceded mine. Much th...

Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 701 c1220-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, start by thanking the noble and learned Lord, Lord Archer of Sandwell, for his ini...

Lord Kingsland | 701 c1223-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like so many other noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, I, too, pay tribute to ...

Lord Archer of Sandwell | 701 c1228-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at the end of a debate like this it is conventional to begin by thanking all noble Lords w...

Lord Sheikh | 701 c1208-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are today being invited to confront a rather peculiar situation. The international comm...

Baroness D'Souza | 701 c1206-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, almost everyone abhors torture. In fact, so abhorrent is it that perhaps too few actually ...

Lord Archer of Sandwell | 701 c1203-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. Of all the ways in which one human...

Lord Judd | 701 c1212-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, start by paying a warm tribute to my noble and learned friend Lord Archer of Sandw...

Lord Ramsbotham | 701 c1214-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Archer of Sandwell, on his initiative in b...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 701 c1225-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may join the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, and associate myself with the remarks p...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 701 c1210-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Archer of Sandwell, on bringing forward th...