Sentencing Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble and learned Lord and to pick up the issue of tryi...

My Lords, I must confess to some diffidence in finding myself between the noble and learned Lords...

My Lords, the number of Acts consolidated in this Bill shows the large number of Acts that are re...

My Lords, I am happy to join those who have already spoken in welcoming this Bill and paying trib...

My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord the Minister for his careful explanation of the Bill...

My Lords, first I draw attention to my interests as set out in the register.

I warmly welco...

My Lords, I have to declare a lack of interest in this Bill. I am not a lawyer, nor one of those ...

I call the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf. We do not seem to be able to communicate with him,...

My Lords, I cannot think of anybody in the House less fitted to impersonate the noble and learned...

My Lords, I begin by referring to my registered interest as a practising member of the Bar and a ...

My Lords, I will speak about consolidation rather than the detail of sentencing, although I am gl...

My Lords, in a month I shall have been a member of the Bar for 50 years, and I have included in t...

My Lords, five years ago, the review I conducted for the then Minister for Prisons into the self-...

My Lords, I declare that I have sat in the youth court for more than 20 years. I warmly welcome t...

My Lords, we have heard already that when passing sentence the sentencing judge must consider the...

In warmly welcoming the Bill, I pay tribute to the Law Commission for its outstanding achievement...

My Lords, I speak with a great deal of trepidation in supporting this Bill, not because I have an...

My Lords, in welcoming this Bill, I am guided by the expert voices in your Lordships’ House, part...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to everyone who has been involved over many years in all the w...

My Lords, I have to start by apologising that I am not going to discuss the Bill before us, for v...

My Lords, first, I join other noble Lords in putting on record my thanks to the Law Commission an...

My Lords, I would like to make three points. First, we have heard it reflected many times in this...

I am grateful to your Lordships for allowing me a second opportunity to contribute to this debate...

My Lords, I congratulate David Ormerod, parliamentary counsel and the Law Commission for the prod...

Like every other speaker I voice my support for the Bill, on behalf of the Opposition. Like so ma...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords, and noble and learned Lords, for their contributions. I reiter...