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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, we also support these amendments. There has been a ghastly spate of tragic cases of cruelty to children, both those mentioned by the Minister and others. We agree that…15 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I am very grateful for the support that I have had for my Amendments 71 to 78 from Members of the House and for all the contributions to this important debate. I am also…15 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I understand that point. It is very rare that I disagree with the noble and learned Lord, but it is still the fact that what Parliament decides, judges must implement.…15 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMay I confirm that? It was the wrong word to use, and I apologise.15 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, of the amendments in this group, Amendments 71 to 78, to which I speak now, replicate the amendments I spoke to in Committee, which were also in my name and the name of…15 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I support the opposition of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, and my noble friend Lady Randerson to this clause. The clause as it stands is simply wrong in…13 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, on these Benches we share the shock and revulsion at the death of PC Harper and the way that it came about. We support the principle that a life sentence should be…08 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am sorry to make a second intervention before the Minister has had a chance to answer the first. The point I wanted to make to the House and for the Minister’s consideration is…08 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI take it the Minister would accept that legislation could quite easily disapply those regulations in the case of the use of registered interpreters, if that legislation were…22 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThe noble and learned Lord invites a response. I can certainly say that we will co-operate with that and I completely agree with him that the degree to which we are forced to rush…22 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I have put my name to this amendment for all the reasons put forward by the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, in opening. She has campaigned for this change for a long time…22 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for giving way and I am sorry that he found my speech terrible. I think he missed the point. I am not suggesting that there should be…22 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I entirely support the motivation behind all the amendments in the group, comprehensively spoken to by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer. I am, however, hesitant…22 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Has he had regard to Section 6 of the Academies Act, which provides that a local authority must cease to maintain a secure school if…17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI have no wish to get the noble Baroness into more difficulties, but the problem arises because she said that the court would have to consider the relevance of the carriage of the…17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I propose to deal with just one amendment, Amendment 233, which is concerned with the defence of reasonable excuse. I concentrate on that because my noble friend Lord…17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, Amendments 240A and 259C in my name and that of my noble friend Lord German, who has had to leave, call for the establishment of a women’s justice board. It has been…17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I am very grateful for the support of noble Lords from around the House for the proposal to establish a women’s justice board. I pick on two points made by the noble and…17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I will not address the detail of the noble Earl’s amendment, but I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead,…17 Nov 2021