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HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillWe move on to a different part of the Bill, which seeks to impose more rigorous time limits for bringing civil actions, whether in accordance with the ordinary law of tort or…09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, my noble friend Lord West of Spithead, the noble and gallant Lords, Lord Craig of Radley, Lord Stirrup and Lord Boyce, and…09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy Lords, in this group I shall address Amendments 3, 5, 6, 17 and 28. This group seeks, in a variety of ways, to deal with a problem that the Minister identified in her helpful…09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy Lords, I am obliged to the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, and the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, for taking part in the debate. May I specifically exclude the noble Lord, Lord Faulks,…09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillThis amendment deals with the factors that the court must have regard to when it considers whether or not to extend a limitation period under the Human Rights Act. The new Clause…09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy Lords, this has been an incredibly instructive debate. Every single speaker has spoken in favour of Amendment 14 in a debate that has lasted an hour, and they could not have…09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillThere are three amendments in this group, Amendments 10, 11 and 12, which deal with the question of the need for the consent of the Attorney-General before a prosecution covered…09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI am obliged for the detailed and very careful reply that the noble Baroness, Lady Goldie, gave, and I am particularly grateful to her for overriding instructions—that is the…09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillI am obliged to everyone who participated in the debate and to the noble Baroness, Lady Goldie, for the care with which she answered the questions raised. As the debate went on, I…09 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillI endorse the question so clearly put by the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford. Despite the clear explanation given by the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, I am still…03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, the effect of the Bill at the moment is that a condition of a TPIM can be that the subject takes a polygraph test, and that a failure to do that could be a breach of the…03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Stewart of Dirleton, for explaining these measures. It would probably be helpful for a similar letter to that provided…03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillThis is an incredibly important debate, because it goes very much to the heart of the views we take on what the Executive can do. It is anathema to our system that the Executive…03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillIt is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames. He has covered much of the area with which I am concerned in these sensible probing amendments. The next…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillThis amendment proposes that the Secretary of State, within six months of the Bill being passed, should set up a pilot to see how the polygraph condition works in relation to…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillI am grateful to everybody who has participated in the debate, particularly the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, the noble Lords, Lord Thomas and Lord Paddick, and the noble and…09 Feb 2021