Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Bill [HL]

Moved by

Lord Falconer of Thoroton

1: Clause 2, page 2, line 27, leave out subsection...

My Lords, the effect of the three amendments in this group—Amendments 1, 4 and 5—is that the powe...

My Lords, I support the observations so powerfully made by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falco...

My Lords, I am sympathetic to the context set out so eloquently by the noble and learned Lord, Lo...

It may help the noble Baroness if I answer the procedural question she put at the beginning of he...

My Lords, as I understand it, the amendments in this group have two aims: to curb the overbroad p...

My Lords, the arguments put forward by my noble and learned friend Lord Falconer seem utterly com...

My Lords, I support the observations of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, and of the nob...

My Lords, I have added my name to the objection to Clause 2 standing part of the Bill, to be move...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to the debate. I shall of course speak ...

We appear to have lost the noble and learned Lord the Minister. Is he still with us?

I think that I am coming back. I apologise, but something happened on the computer.

We have...

My Lords, the following noble Lords indicated a wish to speak after the Minister: the noble Lord,...

I had not intended to intervene at this stage. However, since this, is or ought to be, very simil...

My Lords, I of course am listening to the contributions made to the debate in Committee and will ...

My Lords, I thank my noble and learned friend for his full answer to the concerns that were raise...

First, let me make it clear that I do not accept that it is an invariable constitutional practice...

I have just a few points to raise with the Minister. At one point, he said that the first amendme...

I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mance, for his further observations. I simply notice thi...

My Lords, before I call the noble Lord, Lord Marks, I should say that the noble Lords, Lord Adoni...

My Lords, I was not suggesting—and neither, I believe, was the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh—that...

On that point, of course I accept that Lugano does not go as far as Brussels Ia and IIa—Brussels ...

I took the Minister’s response to my noble friend Lord Foulkes to mean that he did not recognise ...

I mentioned them earlier in my observations with regard to the 1920 and 1933 Acts, which, by Orde...

An important part of the Minister’s argument is that an affirmative procedure suffices because al...

There may of course be incidental policy issues that arise when we come to draw down into domesti...

This very interesting debate has raised, in effect, two substantial questions: as a matter of pri...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 2. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to ...

Moved by

Lord Falconer of Thoroton

2: Clause 2, page 2, line 29, leave out “relating ...

My Lords, I shall try to deal with this group very quickly. It illustrates the width and uncertai...

My Lords, those of us who are less than happy with Clause 2 have three options: restricting it to...

My Lords, I am indebted to the noble Lord, Lord Rowlands, for drawing my attention to the impress...

I believe that the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, does not wish to contribute at this point. I therefor...

My Lords, as has been pointed out, these amendments illustrate the width of the delegated power p...

My Lords, for information, Amendment 3 is in the next group of amendments. In this group we have ...

Yes, it is very helpful. Have I started addressing Amendment 3 by mistake? I certainly did not in...

My Lords, in his letter of 19 April in response to the report of the Delegated Powers Committee, ...

My Lords, I begin with Amendment 2, which as the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, noted, wo...

The extraordinary tedium of that answer should not detract from the enormity of what the Minister...

My Lords, I think it timely that we should now adjourn until 5.15 pm. That means that broadcastin...

My Lords, the Virtual Committee will now resume. We come to the group beginning with Amendment 3....

Moved by

Lord Falconer of Thoroton

3: Clause 2, page 2, line 31, leave out subsection...

My Lords, we have adumbrated many of the same points over and over, because they keep coming up a...

My Lords, I will make two preliminary points. The first echoes what has been said in many of our ...

I have nothing to add to this discussion.

My Lords, the question raised by my noble and learned friend Lord Wallace of Tankerness is about ...

My Lords, as with the previous groups of amendments, the underlying theme is that Clause 2 should...

One speaker has indicated that they wish to come in on the amendment.

My Lords, I note what the Minister said about fears that something might be imposed on Scotland o...

Let me be clear: I do not accept the underlying premise of the noble and learned Lord’s argument....

The Minister remorselessly misses the point over a period of time. The purpose of the amendment i...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 7. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to ...

Moved by

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

7: Clause 2, page 3, line 14, leave out sub-paragrap...

It is appropriate that these amendments follow those we have just been discussing, 3 and 18. I am...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes of Cumnock, has said, it is welcome that we have this o...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, explained in his introduction that these are probing amen...

I have nothing to add on this group.

My Lords, I am of course speaking as a Welshman. We have a very limited interest in the provision...

I simply underline the points made by my noble friend Lord Foulkes and the noble and learned Lord...

My Lords, I am obliged to the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes of Cumnock, for tabling what he very candi...

My Lords—

As no further speakers have indicated that they wish to intervene on this amendment, I call Lord ...

I apologise for jumping in a little prematurely.

This has been a very useful debate and the...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 14. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

14: Clause 2, page 3, line 39, leave out paragraphs ...

My Lords, this brings me to another of my special interests, and one that I have been pursuing fo...

My Lords, I have nothing to add to the points succinctly made by the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes.