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HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]My Lords, I begin by saying that I entirely agree with noble Lords that digital support for those who want to access online services will be paramount to the effectiveness of the…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]Respectfully, it appears that there is already statutory provision for just such a report, because the appointments will be monitored by the Commissioner for Public Appointments,…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]I am afraid I cannot accept that. There is nothing in the Bill that would prohibit the employment of such a paper process once the online procedure is up and running. Indeed, the…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]No, I do not accept the amendment. What I say is that there are existing means by which we can assure people that they can proceed by way of a digital portal or by way of a…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]My Lords, might I be permitted to respond with equal brevity to the noble Lord’s proposed amendment? Our concern is that this should be a small committee which has the ability…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]I will briefly clarify the position for the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby. I was not undertaking to consult to agree, but to give further consideration to the matter before Report.10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]I first turn to Amendments 22 to 24, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, and address the issue that the rules should be piloted by the Online Procedure Rule Committee before…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]My Lords, I approach this amendment with some trepidation, but I shall explain it in this way. It removes paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Bill, which itself provides for the…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]If every time we legislated we decided to guarantee everything from A to Z, we would end up with very long Bills. The position is this: there is the ability to proceed by way of…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]That is not a question that I am able to answer now because I cannot foresee the future, but I shall take further instruction on the matter and write to the noble Lord on the…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]My Lords, I begin by responding to the observations made by the noble Lord, Lord Beith, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd. This is a piece of enabling…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 1, 3, 4, 6, 10 and 11, which relate to the operation of the online procedure and how we can ensure that people using it are not disadvantaged.…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]My Lords, it appears that we might avoid both potential problems if we retain the present membership of the proposed committee. Before I turn to the detail of the amendments, it…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]We intend to appoint a committee of experts to formulate these rules, including judicial members. They will have regard to the need for access to justice. Certainly, we have…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]There are circumstances in which the Minister may give directions to the committee—I accept that—and that reflects the current position with regard to the other rule committees…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]It is to ensure that where, for example, there are debt actions below a certain level—let us take a figure of £25,000—they must be initiated by way of the Online Procedure Rules,…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]I hear what the noble and learned Lord has said and I will take account of those observations in going forward to the next stage of the Bill. However, at present it is not my…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]I quite see that this House might wish to see it in primary legislation, but the position is this: a committee will be formed to put forward appropriate rules and regulations for…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]With respect to my noble and learned friend, my understanding of the position is that the rules will require that certain forms of action—for example, small debt action—should be…10 Jun 2019