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Coroners and Justice Bill

Debate on bills on Thursday, 12 November 2009, in the House of Commons.
Coroners and Justice Bill. Lords amendment 1B considered and agreed to following disagreement on division that amendment (a) be made. Resolved that this House does not insist on its disagreement with the Lords in their amendments 59, 119, 121, 236 and 239.

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Reference

499 c370-88 

Session

2008-09

Department

Ministry of Justice

Legislative stage

Lords amendments

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Coroners and Justice Bill. Lords amendment in lieu, insistence and reasons.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Denis MacShane | 499 c383 (Link to this contribution) One of the millionaires on the Opposition Front Bench says, "What?" I will send him my book, and if ...
Denis MacShane | 499 c382-3 (Link to this contribution) I am broadly in the same camp as my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore), because I feel ...

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Jack Straw | 499 c382 (Link to this contribution) There will have to be an inquest. If the request is turned down and there is, therefore, no suspensi...
Andrew Dismore | 499 c382 (Link to this contribution) Well, that is my concern, because I am not entirely convinced that the wording under the Lords amend...
Jack Straw | 499 c382 (Link to this contribution) The point is that the situation would arise only when a view was taken that there could not be an ar...
Andrew Dismore | 499 c382 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that that is right. Can my right hon. Friend absolutely assure us that if the Lord Chi...
Andrew Dismore | 499 c381 (Link to this contribution) My main concern throughout this long-running debate, going right back to the counter-terrorism legis...
Oliver Heald | 499 c381 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with that, but what is the material on which the Lord Chief Justice will make his ...
Jack Straw | 499 c380 (Link to this contribution) This issue is really important, because Lords amendment 1B would amend paragraph 3(1) of schedule 1 ...
Speaker | 499 c388 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is an experienced Member and he knows that that was not a point of order.
Denis MacShane | 499 c383-4 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Deputy Speaker, if I am insulted and cat-called from a sedentary position, Members will get as g...
Speaker | 499 c383 (Link to this contribution) Order. This kind of language is not helping the debate in any way.
Edward Leigh | 499 c387-8 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It would be useful if the Secretary of State could make a s...
Dominic Grieve | 499 c384 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to all the hon. Members who have participated in the debate and to the Secretary of St...
Oliver Heald | 499 c375 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that there will be a full lock in the sense that the Lord Chief Justic...
Jack Straw | 499 c374 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman is pleading—improbably—the consistency of the Liberal Democrat party, can he e...
David Heath | 499 c374 (Link to this contribution) To say that we sat on our hands when we supported in a very close Division the proposals of the hon....
Dominic Grieve | 499 c373-4 (Link to this contribution) Again, my hon. Friend has made a good point. One of the deficiencies of the system that the Governme...
David Heath | 499 c374 (Link to this contribution) I am a little surprised to be called ahead the Lord Chancellor, but I am grateful for the opportunit...
Dominic Grieve | 499 c375 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to get involved in a spat with the hon. Gentleman, but when we debated the matter on t...
David Heath | 499 c375 (Link to this contribution) Very well, let us accept what the hon. and learned Gentleman has said, and let us move on to the sub...
David Heath | 499 c375 (Link to this contribution) And I am perfectly happy to continue to raise it, except that it is not the matter before us today, ...
Oliver Heald | 499 c373 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend think that the consequence of his amendment (a) would be that more i...
Jack Straw | 499 c376-8 (Link to this contribution) I will attempt to be as brief as I can, Mr. Speaker, because other hon. Members want to take part no...
Chris Huhne | 499 c378 (Link to this contribution) It would be useful if the Lord Chancellor put on record what I understood him to say earlier from a ...
Jack Straw | 499 c378-9 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to put that on the record. The Lord Chief Justice could, and would, go on exercising that...
Dominic Grieve | 499 c379 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for having put on the record so clearly the issues surroundi...
Jack Straw | 499 c379 (Link to this contribution) We all agree that the Lord Chief Justice, when deciding whether to appoint a particular judge, any o...
Oliver Heald | 499 c379-80 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor has made a strong case for his view that the ...
Jack Straw | 499 c380 (Link to this contribution) I have said this about 15 times, but the Lord Chief Justice would not appoint that judge or any judg...
Oliver Heald | 499 c380 (Link to this contribution) The Lord Chancellor and I may have to disagree on that point, but I believe that the decision about ...
David Heath | 499 c375-6 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will, Mr. Speaker. I often accept interventions in order to allow colleagues to get thei...
Speaker | 499 c375 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) has been extremely brief so far in his rem...
Dominic Grieve | 499 c372-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and that is the next point that I want to address. The Government came up ...
Oliver Heald | 499 c371 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. and learned Friend explain, in light of his amendment, the grounds on which the Lord Ch...
Dominic Grieve | 499 c371 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful and important point. Given the problems, it could be that interc...
Andrew Dismore | 499 c370 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman has come up with an interesting formulation, but does he agree that t...
Dominic Grieve | 499 c370 (Link to this contribution) When this matter was last before the House, there was an extensive debate about whether the Bill con...
Speaker | 499 c370 (Link to this contribution) With this, it will be convenient to take the Government motion to agree with Lords amendment 1B.
Dominic Grieve | 499 c371 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend and I have worked on this together, and he knows that the Opposition have long ...
David Davis | 499 c371 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my hon. and learned Friend can give me an assurance about what would happen in the ...
Dominic Grieve | 499 c371 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has anticipated me by a few sentences, and I shall deal with that point in a mome...
David Heath | 499 c371 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) has raised a good point, but the beauty of the amendment th...
Dominic Grieve | 499 c370 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment (a) to Lords amendment 1B.

Subjects

Admissibility of evidence
Coroners
Juries
Evidence

Legislation

Coroners and Justice Bill 2008-09

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