Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill [HL]

My Lords, since Committee on 10 July there have been meetings and extensive correspondence with t...

My Lords, it is very geeky to wonder whether secondary legislation amending a schedule should be ...

My Lords, we are dealing here with a very sensitive subject: that of authorising court and tribun...

My Lords, I am obliged for all the contributions that have been made with regard to this matter. ...

Can the noble and learned Lord not merely give the House an assurance that the Government do not ...

I endeavoured to set that point out in my previous observations, but I am happy to repeat them. I...

I am grateful to the Minister for his answer and to other noble Lords for their interventions, pa...

Moved by

Baroness Chakrabarti

2: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, this amendment would ensure that within three years of the coming into force of the Act...

My Lords, this amendment would require the Lord Chancellor to arrange a review of the impact of t...

I am grateful to the Minister for that. I am grateful that there is a continuing commitment to ev...

Moved by

Baroness Chakrabarti

3: The Schedule, page 6, line 36, at end insert—

...

My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendments 4 and 6, which are consequential. These amendments in ...

My Lords, the noble Baroness has opened our debate on the amendment with considerable eloquence a...

My Lords, I do not wish to be impertinent. This is my first intervention and exchange with the Go...

My Lords, as has been said, the purpose of this part of the Bill is to introduce a degree of flex...

My Lords, I am all in favour of flexibility and entirely understand the argument, in relation to ...

My Lords, as a former judge of the family court, I wonder in what circumstances such judges—distr...

My Lords, these amendments relate to two elements of the Bill. Amendments 3 and 4 require that an...

Once again, I am grateful to the Minister and other noble Lords for that interesting and illumina...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

5: The Schedule, page 10, line 19, at end insert—

“b...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 5, I will speak also to Amendment 12, standing in my name. I am mos...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord has indicated that we support these amendments, and indeed t...

My Lords, as far as I am concerned, this is the good news in this afternoon’s proceedings. I am v...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

7: The Schedule, page 11, line 8, at end insert—

“67...

My Lords, as well as moving Amendment 7, I shall speak also to Amendments 9, 10 and 13, which sta...

Before the Minister sits down, can he give the House a practical example of the exercise of relev...

One obvious example is the issuing of a summons. Such persons issue about 2.5 million summonses a...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 8 and to Amendment 11, which is consequential, both of which...

My Lords, in Committee I spoke in favour of a blanket right to judicial reconsideration of all de...

My Lords, I support what the Government seek to do and urge a substantial degree of caution in re...

I am obliged to all noble Lords for their contributions. The Government’s position remains that t...

Moved by

Baroness Chakrabarti

8: The Schedule, page 11, line 8, at end insert—

...

My Lords, once more I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to the discussion, whic...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

9: The Schedule, page 17, line 43, at end insert—

“S...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

12: The Schedule, page 18, line 27, after “paragraph” inse...