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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAgain, the noble Lord asks a question of some detail and I will, with his leave, respond in writing. I appreciate his point that doubling from one to two is not significant.…07 Jun 2023HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits against Public ParticipationMy Lords, it is the privilege of the legal profession to act for the weak against the powerful. On the specific point which the noble Baroness raises, I will write to her. I can…01 Dec 2022HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits against Public ParticipationMy Lords, in answer to my noble friend’s first point, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has already acted—and acted well—by issuing warnings to firms about the practices which…01 Dec 2022HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits against Public ParticipationMy Lords, as I said, the delay in this matter, if I may style it in those terms, is not a case of the Government attempting to procrastinate and to kick the matter into the long…01 Dec 2022HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits against Public ParticipationIn relation to the first two of the ameliorative matters which the noble Baroness identified, I can assure the House that those are within consideration and will be enacted in the…01 Dec 2022HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits against Public ParticipationMy Lords, strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPPs, are an abuse of the legal process designed to close down inquiries and prevent the publication of information…01 Dec 2022HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits against Public ParticipationI take the noble Lord’s point and can tell him that one of the campaigning organisations which has been doing magnificent work in this field has prepared a model law which will be…01 Dec 2022HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits against Public ParticipationMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her indication of her preparedness to work on a matter which I think is a concern for the whole House. I am also grateful to her…01 Dec 2022HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits against Public ParticipationThe noble Lord is quite correct, and of course I defer to his extensive experience in this area. None the less, I submit that it is of fundamental importance that legislation is…01 Dec 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their participation in this debate. I will first address Amendment 40 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie. I am delighted to…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, interpretation of foreign law is a matter with which all three jurisdictions in the United Kingdom are familiar. With the noble Lord’s leave, because my remit does not…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI stress, not for the first time from the Dispatch Box by myself or my noble friends on the Front Bench, that the Government’s preference remains for a negotiated solution. The…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillThe noble and learned Baroness doubtless speaks rhetorically. I have the utmost respect for her intellect, as does the whole House. My position, which I sought to express, was…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI think this perhaps overlaps with the point that the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, raised, but I reiterate our commitment to Article 2. That will be covered in a letter we…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, the courts of the United Kingdom are fully competent to interpret and apply the law. The Government’s intention is that the laws of the United Kingdom should prevail and…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillBefore I do, I say that, in response to an earlier point on which I undertook to write, I am notified from the Box that the matter of the single electricity market and the…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillWith the utmost respect to my noble friend’s question, I do not feel I can go further from the Dispatch Box on what has taken place or what I consider likely to take place in…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for raising the point. The Government have always anticipated that the United Kingdom courts will be the final arbiter. The clause to which the…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have participated in this debate, which was short because, as the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, recognised in introducing it, much of the…02 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful to my noble friend. I was left by some of the strictures and anticipations of my point from noble Lords looking for synonyms for the words “long-standing…25 Oct 2022