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HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, I express my support for Amendment 36A. When I was a member of your Lordships’ Constitution Committee we looked into the impact of the pandemic on the criminal courts.…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, the Minister rightly said that his Amendment 38 is a modest one, but this group of amendments raises more general concerns, as the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, has just…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillThe Minister draws my attention to subsection (6), which allows a person to choose to do so by non-electronic means, but that is not easy to reconcile with the provision I have…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, I am sorry to rise again, but I want to respond to what the Minister was indicating to me: that, under Clause 19(6), it would be open to a litigant in civil proceedings…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy concern is not about online hearings, because they do take place and may be convenient in some circumstances; it is that Chapter 2 allows for no hearings at all. It allows for…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillThat is a very important point. If the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, brings back his amendment on Report, as I hope he will, he may wish to add in a provision along the…21 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill21 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillThe noble and learned Lord has raised a number of very valid points in opposition to Clause 2. I offer another, in response to the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, who emphasises that…21 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillI am very grateful to the Minister and to all those who have spoken in this interesting debate. It is important to emphasise that this is not a technical legal issue. We are…21 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillI am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He expresses the hope that these provisions will enable the judiciary to build up a body of precedent in this area. Can he direct the…21 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillI am very grateful to the Minister. He emphasises that the court can have regard to other factors. Does he accept that it would be permissible for the court to ask itself the…21 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, I agree with those who have spoken, and particularly with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, who said that these provisions will provoke litigation. Speaking as…21 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillIf he gave such an order, why is there a need for Parliament to step in and deal with the matter? In any event, such an order is more appropriately dealt with by a suspended…21 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, the reaction of most of your Lordships to Part 1 of this Bill at Second Reading was summed up in the memorable words of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb,…21 Feb 2022HANSARDDissolution and Calling of Parliament BillMy Lords, I suppose I should declare a professional interest in the possibility of Miller 3. I support the amendments in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Norton and Lord Butler.…09 Feb 2022HANSARDDissolution and Calling of Parliament BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Howard, raised a concern that there might be a Prime Minister who is unable to govern and to secure a majority for a Dissolution. There is a…09 Feb 2022HANSARDDissolution and Calling of Parliament BillDoes the noble Lord allow for the possibility that the reason why there was no precedent prior to Miller 2 was because no Prime Minister prior to that had abused, in the view of…09 Feb 2022HANSARDDissolution and Calling of Parliament BillNo, because my point is that hopeless or frivolous applications will be dealt with speedily by the courts. This was plainly an application with no merit whatever, and my noble…09 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as a barrister who has practised in the field of judicial review for 40 years, representing clients as diverse as asylum seekers, the Reverend Moon…07 Feb 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Planned Government BillMy Lords, does the Minister agree that the Government’s inability to recover the billions of pounds obtained by fraudsters from Covid business plans, as highlighted by the noble…31 Jan 2022