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HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillMy Lords, this is a compendious group of amendments to a Bill that may appear simple but is made complex by the fact that it is, for all the reasons developed by the noble and…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) Bill19 Feb 2019HANSARDLegal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012My Lords, after a delayed process that took an entire year, we now have the post-implementation review of LASPO. I will focus on legal aid. Of its four stated objectives, the MoJ…07 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillNo, and I regard that view as profoundly dangerous. The reason is that when we need arrangements that justify legislation, we can specify what legislation we need. As I will seek…05 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillMy Lords, I join the noble Lords, Lord O’Shaughnessy and Lord Foulkes, in welcoming the noble Baroness, Lady Blackwood of North Oxford, to the House and to her post. I…05 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillI think the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, was that it is very dangerous to give the reassurance that the Minister was giving and to tell the public that all will be…05 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillI accept the noble Lord’s point that I should not have said “or”. My point is that outside the context of the withdrawal agreement, which would have been fully debated, any new…05 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, Amendment 37 in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord McNicol of West Kilbride, would make it the objective of an appropriate authority to secure a bilateral system…30 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade Bill30 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response, and I will be withdrawing the amendment, with your Lordships’ leave. The plain fact is that the arrangements the…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019The noble Lord has understood it absolutely correctly and has plainly made the point more eloquently than I did. It was the point I made when I mentioned that the noble and…29 Jan 2019HANSARDCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019That is for the future.29 Jan 2019HANSARDCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I will simply respond to that, because in a sense it is an intervention on me. I accept that this is conditional in the sense that the noble Lord mentions. However, my fundamental…29 Jan 2019HANSARDCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is when you are litigating about two issues at once. You are litigating in a principal case and you have another case going on to decide one aspect.29 Jan 2019HANSARDCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019The noble Lord may have noticed that in the impact assessment, among the business assessments, it just says “not applicable”. That seems a dereliction of duty.29 Jan 2019HANSARDCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I hope that the noble and learned Lord will at least address my question on what consideration has been given to applying to join the Brussels regime entirely separately. Although…29 Jan 2019HANSARDMutual Recognition of Protection Measures in Civil Matters (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I broadly welcome this measure and that the Government has in this case taken a humane approach and decided unilaterally to accord recognition to the question of…29 Jan 2019HANSARDJurisdiction and Judgments (Family) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I do not propose to address the same matters of detail that the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, has done. I said a great deal of what I wanted to say about the general impact…29 Jan 2019HANSARDCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Justice.29 Jan 2019HANSARDCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019In this case, it is two jurisdictions. There is one case and you are having an argument, in another court, about whether it should be proceeding in court 1 or a court in another…29 Jan 2019