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HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)What I hope I have set out is that we are simply introducing flexibility. One should not underestimate the fact that the powers are in the hands of a judicial figure—the coroner…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)I am just responding to one intervention at the moment. I stand by the point that I made earlier: overall, remote access digitisation enhances access to justice. For many people…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)The hon. Member for Hammersmith asked for evidence. It is obviously a difficult area. The procedures are new, so having very clear evidence on certain types of remote proceedings—18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)My right hon. Friend speaks with great expertise and, indeed, with more experience than when he made his last intervention, based on his earlier comments.18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)I want to make progress, but I will give way one more time.18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Was it Lincoln, by any chance?18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I will be addressing all the points, but the hon. Gentleman is right: clause 38 contains very significant safeguards. The intention behind clause 37 is to provide coroners with…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Ah! I asked because my hon. Friend is obviously a Lincolnshire MP. She is absolutely right. Since I got this job—I have been in post only a matter of weeks—I have visited Crown…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)The employment dispute resolution system has responded impressively to the challenges presented by the pandemic. Despite the enormous challenges they faced, employment tribunals…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)There are some very good examples. There are one or two that we are working on at the moment, which I will go into more detail about at the appropriate moment. But the most…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)As ever, the hon. Gentleman makes a number of interesting points. Some of them go quite a bit wider than the clause before us, although he did enter the caveat that, given the…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Over the past year, the coronial system has shown great resilience in how it has coped with the impacts of the pandemic in ensuring that death investigations have continued as far…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)The hon. Gentleman has twice referred to the backlog in coroners’ courts caused by the pandemic. Can I be absolutely clear? Does he accept that the pandemic has had a very…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)I am happy to say these will be state-of-the-art courtrooms with very high eco ratings, which I am sure the hon. Gentleman will agree is extremely important. They will bring on…18 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)Very quickly, because it is incredibly relevant, I assure the hon. Gentleman that our business was entirely national. The reason that it was able to operate nationally, in every…16 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)Good morning, Mr Rosindell. The sun shines on the Committee. This is a sunshine clause, not necessarily a sunset clause, but it is an important one. The criminal age of…16 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)When we meet to discuss the single justice procedure—a meeting that I was more than happy to agree to—we can talk about how we can look at things. There will obviously be ongoing…16 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I am glad that the reason for my right hon. Friend’s delay was that he is so proactive he was working to amend earlier parts of the Bill, which we will presumably come to after…16 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. As a Conservative, he is, of course, a champion of choice at the forefront of public policy—16 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)Of course—and the needy. They are both important. Given the safeguards in place and the fact that an offline option is already available, I do not think the amendments are…16 Nov 2021