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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am not focusing on the supervisory duty. For these purposes it does not matter whether we have a duty to co-operate once a month or once a day, or to get in touch with it every…07 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIs that not precisely what the Vienna convention on the interpretation of treaties provides for: that each nation interprets it? States have to relate to and deal with the body to…07 Jun 2023HANSARDEuropean Court of Human Rights: Rule 39My Lords, the Minister is quite right to point out that there are important jurisdictional questions regarding the Rule 39 injunctions. However, focusing on the process, is it not…06 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt is certainly not smoke and mirrors. The force of the noble Baroness’s point is, “If you can’t make a Section 19(1)(a) statement, there is something irremediably bad with the…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful for that shortish intervention. Essentially it raises the same point that the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, put to me and, without any disrespect, I give the same…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am reluctant to give the noble Lord a private lecture on this, but I will set out a very short answer. I will be blunt but, I hope, legally accurate. The short answer to the…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI started my remarks by saying that international treaties are extremely important and that we should always legislate consistently with our international obligations, except in…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWith great respect, the noble Baroness is wrong. The Human Rights Act did not incorporate the convention. Can I just finish what I was saying? It took certain articles of the…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI entirely agree with the noble Baroness that we should pass clear legislation. I think she used the word “exciting” to describe lawyers.24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThat is the first time I have heard the word used. The noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, used the word “interesting”, which is at least better than “expensive”, which is the…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, like my noble friend Lord Patten, I have sat through all of this debate. I rise because my name—or, at least, a name close to mine—was mentioned by the noble Lord, Lord…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe noble and learned Lord is absolutely right; it has no legal effect. Can I put this another way? The Minister can make a Section 19(1)(b) statement and the court can find that…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe noble Lord is making a political point. It may be good politics or bad politics, but whether the Government want to do that or not, my focus is on Section 19 of the Human…24 May 2023HANSARDIranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsThe fact is that the Minister who answered the debate in the other place on 12 January this year was unable to identify a single reason why the IRGC should not be proscribed. My…23 May 2023HANSARDIranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsMy Lords, I am grateful that the Government are keeping this matter under active consideration because otherwise there would be a real risk of a delay in a decision.23 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, and not only because we share a family background in south Wales. Given my legal background, I…10 May 2023HANSARDJurors: Mental Health ImpactMy Lords, is not the criminal justice system unusual among public services because it depends on volunteers, or at least non-professionals, for the vast majority of the work?…28 Mar 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillMy Lords, I declare an interest: I generally pay my mortgage by debating the difference between “significant” and “more than minor”, so I am on very familiar territory. The…14 Mar 2023HANSARDPlaying FieldsMy Lords, after the events of the weekend, does my noble friend the Minister agree that the key thing is that public access to playing fields and what goes on on them should be…13 Mar 2023HANSARDSecurity Threat to UK-based JournalistsMy Lords, over the weekend I read two stories in the media. The first was that fundamentalist clerics in Iran—a regime inspired by a warped perversion of Islam—had been plotting…21 Feb 2023