Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord was kind enough to say some nice things about my report, and...

My Lords, we have had our fun on this Bill at Second Reading and in Committee. I, for my part, ca...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. It is not just people in the saloon bar of t...

With great respect, there is even less justification if we are going to ask the question about pr...

My Lords, I spoke in Committee in support of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd, and I am not...

My Lords, perhaps I may return briefly to the point that I made in Committee, which is directed t...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, with great force and fervour, invites the House to consid...

My Lords, in speaking in support of this amendment, I draw attention to a matter which I believe ...

My Lords, I do not wish to appear conspicuous by my silence on this Bench but will speak very bri...

My Lords, less than a week ago we debated the Government’s amendments to the Criminal Justice and...

Is the noble Lord saying that the Opposition are not going to support the noble and learned Lord,...

There is a lot of competition in that respect. I merely say that on this Bill it is not worth the...

My Lords, in speaking against Clause 2 in Committee and in the debate today, the noble and learne...

Can the Minister help a non-lawyer? Is it the Government’s policy that they are prepared to use l...

I think there is something of both, in the sense that very often in the law of negligence, althou...

My Lords, I am puzzled. Will the noble Lord tell us whether it is ever worthy to use a statute as...

I think I know what the most reverend Primate means. With respect, as I said on a previous occasi...

Before the noble Lord sits down, perhaps I may ask him whether there is any precedent that he can...

I am not sure that off the top of my head I can think of a particular legislative provision that ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have supported this amendment. I want to say a word about the c...

If the noble and learned Lord understood that, he misunderstood it, and if I have contributed to ...

I am quite happy to accept that there must have been a misunderstanding. However, that was certai...

My Lords, surely my noble and learned friend, as I will call him on this occasion, has heard of t...

I am not sure that I fully understood. Perhaps I did not wholly hear what the noble Lord said. Ho...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

1A: Page 1, line 12, leave out “generally” an...

My Lords, Amendment 1A may be less controversial than the matter that we have just finished discu...

My Lords, Clause 3 is the one clause in the Bill which the Government acknowledge embodies a subs...

My Lords, I add my support to what has been said by the noble Lord, Lord Beecham. Clause 3 is ver...

My Lords, I support what has been said by my noble friend Lord Beecham and by the noble Lord, Lor...

Will the Minister, when he comes to reply, assist me? I do not see how this clause will apply if ...

My Lords, I, too, support this amendment. The Bill as a whole is manifestly directed—all the earl...

My Lords, another feature of this clause occurs to me: how one is supposed to apply it when the i...

My Lords, we have had the pleasure of a short but informative debate this afternoon. The criticis...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I still, I am afraid, cannot understand whether, wh...

The answer is yes. There are lots of different circumstances in which two defendants may find the...

Is there some time period over which the court is expected to assess the generally responsible ap...

With great respect to the noble Lord, considering the activity in question focuses the judge on t...

My Lords—

Perhaps I could finish answering this question before I answer the next one. That would necessita...

The Minister must forgive my impatience again. He has concentrated on personal injury claims, but...

The Bill is described in its preamble as being to make,

“provision as to matters to which a...

I am sorry, but I wonder how the noble Lord can make that observation. If a claim comes before th...

Let me deal with the hypothetically negligent accountant. As I said in answer to previous questio...

It would not be this tax return, surely, but the activity of advising on tax returns generally.