Civil Liability Bill [HL]

My Lords, I should inform the Committee that if Amendment 1 is agreed to, I will be unable to cal...

My Lords, Amendment 2 in this group, which is in my name, tackles the same issue. The noble Earl,...

My Lords, Amendment 3 in this group is in my name and those of my noble friend Lord Marks and the...

My Lords, as chairman of the Delegated Powers Committee, which published a report on this Bill, I...

My Lords, I agree entirely with that last point. I too searched on Google and Wikipedia and saw t...

My Lords, I have added my name to the amendment in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Sharkey and...

Perhaps I may add a few words. Of course the definition of whiplash has to be made by doctors—tha...

My Lords, perhaps I may add to what the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, has just said. I agree wit...

My Lords, this is a good Bill but it is incomplete. As the Minister will have noticed, every sing...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a racketeering lawyer, as my noble friend Lord Blencathra woul...

My Lords, I support everything that has been said by every lawyer who has spoken this morning. Cl...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Trevethin and Oaksey, and my noble friend Lord Faulks...

I must apologise to the noble Lord for delaying his expectations slightly, and declare my interes...

The term “whiplash” is pretty loose. What is the noble Lord inviting medical experts to do to int...

There surely has to be a medical definition—and where better to get it from? The medical professi...

My Lords, I thoroughly agree with the proposition that is highly desirable for the definition use...

My Lords, I am obliged for all the contributions that have been made so far this morning. I obser...

My Lords, I am grateful for those last few sentences from the Minister, which were very helpful a...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 6, leave out “, back or shoulder”

My Lords, I shall speak to the amendments in my name. I have already effectively, I hope, spoken ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 15 to 20 and to explain why leaving out the word “psychol...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly to Amendment 21, which is tabled in my name. I draw attention t...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 8, 10 and 49A in this group. I join with the comments made ...

My Lords, I rise with some trepidation to enter into a debate that is so well populated by lawyer...

My Lords, I follow for a moment the line that previous speakers have addressed. I understand that...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Monks, makes a good point: the insurance industry has its share of...

I hate to interrupt my noble friend, but in principle, what is wrong with a call saying that? If ...

I am grateful for that intervention. My point is that if someone has been genuinely injured, whet...

Perhaps I may invite the noble Lord to refer to the provisions that refer to MedCo. He talked abo...

The MedCo system has contributed very considerably to the improvement in the standards of medical...

Before the Minister responds perhaps I may, in the probing spirit of the amendments, mention one ...

My Lords, I return to the issue of employee exemption, which several noble Lords have mentioned i...

My Lords, I intervene briefly, having put my name to the noble Earl’s amendments. I am not sure t...

I am obliged to noble Lords for their contributions to the Bill in Committee. I begin with Amendm...

Can the Minister explain, then, what the point is of putting a subsection into a Bill that will h...

With great respect, the relevant text can be judged, because the requirement is that a person sho...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but is that the point? The point of these amendments, as I ...

With great respect, if the claimant is driving, his claim will be against the third-party driver ...

That is not the point that is being made here. I would be grateful if my noble and learned friend...

With the greatest respect to my noble friend, there is no basis for distinguishing between the co...

May I just try to assist—I hope—the noble and learned Lord? The fact that the employer can authen...

I am grateful for the noble and learned Lord’s assistance. In the past his interventions have not...

My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.