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HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who propose these amendments: the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Gloucester, speaking through the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I do not have the detail at my fingertips, but I can certainly undertake to write to the noble Baroness. I was just about to sit down after inviting the noble Baroness,…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI was coming to each of those points in my speech. I am not going to do so just yet, because I was, it is fair to say, on a different point, but I will come to those points in due…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for raising the issue and of course I understand the concerns that lie behind it. Clause 18 adds two new behaviours…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am not sure that one generally takes questions on Report. I am newer than the noble Baroness, and I do not want to be rude; equally, I want to maintain the approach of the House.02 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for her engagement with me, as the House will have heard, on the amendment, which she has redrafted since Committee, for the…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI want to respond to the concern expressed in Committee about the impact the clause would have on vulnerable groups—particularly, for example, female claimants fleeing…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, and the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, for proposing the new clause. The noble…28 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIn so far as the court has been told by Parliament that it can do that in the 1993 Act when it comes to the Immigration Rules, the court can do so. But, with the greatest respect,…28 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillI understand that, certainly from my postbag. I should say that coroners work extremely hard, but the pandemic has caused a real problem. I do not want to go back to the online…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillI am grateful for that clarification, but the same point would apply. If the only people who are interested—I am using that word in the technical sense—in the inquest can…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillThe noble Lord has not read it yet, but I will take the bravos in advance in case I get brickbats later. I hope it will be a piece of work which will find support. Given that…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, the amendments in this group, Amendments 47, 48 and 49, would introduce three new clauses on legal aid for inquests. Let me make two points right at the start. First, we…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillThe fundamental point is: who is the “you”? Who are the parties to an inquest? As I was saying earlier, you do not have “parties” in inquests, in the same way that you do in…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillOf course I understand that point, in the sense that I too have read the material of people who have been involved in inquests. I have read some of the material from the various…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillI will first say a word about the amendment which I have put before the Committee. Dispute resolution is fundamental, and it is becoming ever more important. Although the noble…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillThat is the point I was going to come to. Here we are dealing with the rules set out by the Online Procedure Rules Committee. That is not the Lord Chancellor. I want to show the…24 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillLook at subsection (6).24 Feb 2022