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Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None I would look at some evidence and input that has come this week from the Domestic Abuse Commissioner - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The Minister mentioned that he works very closely with the Domestic Abuse Commissioner. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) I am quite happy to accept the noble Lord’s invitation to have a conversation with the Domestic Abuse - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Needless to say, if you are a woman who has been raped or sexually assaulted or suffers domestic abuse - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) He has done outstanding work driving down antisocial behaviour and domestic burglary and the examples - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) Labour will mandate domestic abuse and wider violence against women and girls training for every police - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) We now have domestic abuse training that has been rolled out to over 80% of forces and the Home Secretary - Speech Link
4: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) The courts want him returned home. - Speech Link
5: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) Violence and abuse towards shop workers is not and will never be acceptable. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) China’s domestic use of data, through the social checking of genomic data and financial transactions, - Speech Link
2: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The UK courts will continue to be entitled to have regard to CJEU judgments if they choose to do so; - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) National security certificates are unchallengeable before the courts, meaning that the police and the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) Many in this House thought that the Government were wrong, and since then we have seen grand abuse of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) noble Lords, with freeholders, it is absolutely certain that this is going to be challenged in the courts - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) One could simply make such Bills unenforceable in the courts, so that the demand could not be collected.Where - Speech Link
3: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) This arrangement is ripe for abuse. - Speech Link
4: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) This reputation has allowed us to build a strong domestic and foreign direct investment environment. - Speech Link


Other Business
Arbitration Bill [HL]
Lords Special Public Bill Committee: Part 1 - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Mendelsohn (Lab - Life peer) should be looking at in any event, are brought into consideration, leading to the parties asking the courts - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) in this way and it was a mistake to try to circumscribe that, particularly given the success of the courts - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) This clause seeks to remove the special provisions in relation to domestic arbitration from the Act, - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) complex cross-border disputes are equipped and empowered to safeguard their process against any misuse or abuse - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 was transformative with the protections it gave to domestic abuse victims - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Those courts have focused on creating a less adversarial system where domestic abuse allegations are - Speech Link
3: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) Domestic abuse has no place in modern society or any society. - Speech Link
4: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) There is a comprehensive package of support for domestic abuse victims. - Speech Link
5: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) Abuse Commissioner labelled the plans as“dangerous to domestic abuse victims”.Is the Minister satisfied - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Further, domestic courts would normally consider the rights under the domestic law implementing a treaty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) current regime.A number of stakeholders have argued that the new wording is too subjective and is open to abuse - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) you look back at the 19th century, when we underwent the last massive technological revolution, the courts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) we risk creating extensive rules that end up entrenching incumbents’ market power, and we throttle domestic - Speech Link
3: Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Con - Excepted Hereditary) catastrophic or even existential risks to humanity within our lifetimes … We should immediately implement domestic - Speech Link
4: Earl of Erroll (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Some people suggest that it could replace the law courts and a lot of those sorts of things. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None I will start with domestic law. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, in overturning our Amendment 6, which reinstated domestic courts’ jurisdiction, the Minister - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) The point is that they have agreed that treaties will have a kind of direct effect in domestic courts - Speech Link
4: None The Bill prevents domestic courts and tribunals granting interim remedies on matters relating to the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) That draconian law, which is a stain on the country’s human rights record, has fuelled decades of abuse - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) getting away with the crimes that they have carried out and that there will be accountability in the courts - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) With domestic justice processes being so long delayed and denied, we must also look at alternative routes - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) viability of the approach to ensure that UK assistance is in line with our values and consistent with our domestic - Speech Link