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HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)There’s a competition. I will go to the left first.09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I certainly will. If we are talking about saving £400,000, here is my suggestion for another way to do it: do not criminalise legitimate asylum seekers simply because we did not…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)Briefly.09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)No. I still think that is an absolute nonsense. If we are going to have a debate about the Nationality and Borders Bill and the wickedness of pushing back not boats, but…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I absolutely agree with that. I am happy to talk about this because I do not think the Government have a leg to stand on when it comes to how they plan to treat the most…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)The “third bite of the cherry” is not about whether the case is correct or the person’s claim is correct; it is about whether they got the correct process and mechanics in the…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I think the hon. Member is trying to trivialise what we are talking about and I am not going to entertain it any longer. To my mind, the justice system should not accept that…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)We have them already. I am perfectly happy with what is in place. It is the right hon. Gentleman’s Government who seek to change that and take away people’s access to justice. It…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I will finish this story. Before the hearing in the upper tribunal, the Home Office conceded the appeal and accepted that the appellant was a refugee. If Cart had not been an…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I have lost track of all the questions.09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)On the issue of 97% of the cases failing, if the decision-making processes at the beginning of the claim were better, we would not have all those people going through the tribunal…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Suspended quashing orders and prospective-only remedies will not apply in Scottish courts, but because they can and will affect UK-wide laws, the people of Scotland, who remain…04 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister keeps saying that, and I keep saying this, so I will just keep saying it. The legislation says that judges must—they must—use those orders unless they can demonstrate…04 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Yes, and that is what we are talking about—ordinary people who ordinarily do not have the access to justice that people with perhaps a little more money do. The tribunal system,…04 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)As I said earlier, suspended quashing orders and prospective-only remedies do not apply in Scottish courts, and will not apply, but because these are UK-wide laws to which the…04 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)While the subsection says that “the court must exercise the powers” and amendment 27 asks for it to say that the court “may” exercise them, the Minister’s interpretation is that…04 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Third sitting)May I point out that there is no presumption in any of the devolved legislation, and that is primarily what we are arguing about here? It is not about having the ability to do…04 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Third sitting)If the Minister simply wants to put more in the judges’ toolkit, and does not expect a presumption in favour—or a default position, as I said earlier—will the hon. Lady support…04 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister is talking about giving judges the right to use suspended or prospective-only quashing orders, but that is not what the Bill is about. The Bill is about the…04 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)But the Minister’s last point was that it is without presumption, and only in certain circumstances. As I understand it, in certain circumstances in England and Wales those orders…04 Nov 2021