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Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2010

Debates on delegated legislation on Thursday, 25 March 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Bach. The answering member was Lord Henley.
Draft Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2010. Lords debate on a motion to approve. Agreed to on question. Debated with draft Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment) Order 2010.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

718 c1152-77 

Session

2009-10

Department

Ministry of Justice

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment) Order 2010
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords
Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment) Order 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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House of Commons
Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1156 (Link to this contribution) I hope the Minister will forgive me for interrupting again. My understanding is that that recommenda...
Lord Bach | 718 c1156 (Link to this contribution) If the noble and learned Lord does not know the answer to his question, I certainly do not. I will t...

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Lord Woolf | 718 c1155 (Link to this contribution) While the Minister has been interrupted, I want to raise another matter which would assist me. I reg...
Lord Bach | 718 c1155 (Link to this contribution) I will answer the noble Lord in the course of what I have to say in the next few minutes. I am grate...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 718 c1155 (Link to this contribution) Where did the figure of 10 per cent come from? Did the Lord Chancellor not consider 30 per cent or 2...
Lord Bach | 718 c1153-5 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can answer the noble and learned Lord a little later. The regulations require that a repr...
Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1153 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister will forgive me. Can he clarify one point? He said that these regulations w...
Lord Bach | 718 c1152-3 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I shall speak also to the draft Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment) ...
Lord Bach | 718 c1152 (Link to this contribution) Moved By That the draft regulations laid before the House on 16 March be approved. Relevant Docum...
Lord Goodhart | 718 c1173 (Link to this contribution) Why does the noble Lord not accept that the real problem here is defective libel law, which makes it...
Lord Pannick | 718 c1173 (Link to this contribution) I strongly suspect that it will make no difference at all, because the lawyers are understandably an...
Lord Woolf | 718 c1173 (Link to this contribution) Would the noble Lord, whose knowledge about these matters I respect greatly, be good enough to indic...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 718 c1175 (Link to this contribution) Paragraph 3.11 of the impact assessment states: ""The introduction of a maximum cap may result in so...
Lord Bach | 718 c1174-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank everyone who has spoken in this debate. I defend my noble friend the Chief Whip. A...
Lord Marlesford | 718 c1174 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not of course seeking to address your Lordships’ House on the merits of these issues,...
Lord Pannick | 718 c1174 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support all the points that the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, made about the curre...
Lord Bach | 718 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) For the noble Lord, of course I can do better than that. Although there may well be an election fair...
Lord Bach | 718 c1175-6 (Link to this contribution) In every instance there are advantages and disadvantages. The fact remains that this was an unregula...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 718 c1176 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that we are getting pretty close to the wire. We have an Easter Recess coming up, ...
Lord Henley | 718 c1169 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this could have been tabled so we could have had more time. It was obviously something tha...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 718 c1168 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not wishing to stifle debate, but can I politely draw attention to the time? The Hous...
Lord Henley | 718 c1169 (Link to this contribution) May I assist the House? We do not have an hour and three-quarter slot. We have as long as this House...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 718 c1169 (Link to this contribution) I am not trying to stifle debate, but we have got an hour and three-quarter slot for this and it wou...
Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1168 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like my noble and learned friend Lord Woolf, I start by declaring some interests. I was so...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 718 c1157-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am speaking to the amendment which is still to be moved. I thank the Table Office for it...
Lord Bach | 718 c1157 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may first answer the question of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Scott, and then of cours...
Lord Bach | 718 c1156-7 (Link to this contribution) Again, if the noble and learned Lord will forgive me, I will find out and come back with an answer t...
Lord Woolf | 718 c1166-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest which causes in me a sense of déjà-vu. I was responsible for the Acc...
Lord Henley | 718 c1162-3 (Link to this contribution) As I said, and I think I made it perfectly clear, we were not going to oppose this order. We are say...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 718 c1163-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, unlike the noble Lord, Lord Martin, the profession I follow means that I have spent much o...
Lord Henley | 718 c1161-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that the Minister was hoping for a relatively brief debate. We originally scheduled...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 718 c1162 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord, but some of us have listened to his speech with mounting confusion,...
Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1169-71 (Link to this contribution) I will say no more about the meeting I had with the Minister. I think I have given the gist of it. ...
Lord Pannick | 718 c1171-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my admiration for the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, and his magisterial work in prom...
Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1169 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having heard the noble Lords, I will continue but I will endeavour to be as brief as I pos...

Subjects

Defamation
Damages
Civil proceedings
Fees and charges
Legal costs
Newspaper press
Tribunals
VAT
Conditional fee agreements

Legislation

Damages-based Agreements Regulations 2010
Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment) Order 2010

Link

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