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Lords Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (CON - Life peer) As we have already heard, as long as the lawyers toe the line and are not too aggressive in their tactics - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellamy (CON - Life peer) One would hope that those will be developed judicially by senior judges, and that this legislation will - Speech Link
3: None fraud and therefore minimise the costs for low-risk businesses. - Speech Link
4: None This amendment has particular relevance for those Hong Kong officials, judges, prosecutors and police - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Tue 13 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (CB - Excepted Hereditary) to those deemed to be at a higher risk of fraud, then we might see a whole swathe of more vulnerable - Speech Link
2: None populate that list with the King, members of the Royal Family, Members of the House of Lords, admirals, judges - Speech Link
3: Earl Attlee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) regulations and the attendant unacceptable regulatory risk. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) a whole load of lawyers to help sort out how we deal with the common-law fiduciary duty. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) pension fund investment into the UK’s most innovative firms will help develop the next generation of globally - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Wed 24 May 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) I have perhaps alighted on “a mêlée of lawyers”. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Would the child be at risk of being deported at the age of 18? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) limbo, at risk of destitution. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bishops - Bishops) They may have friends and family abroad or here in the UK who will be put at risk if they come forward - Speech Link
5: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) It places themselves and others at risk and puts money into the hands of organised criminals.The fourth - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stageLords Hansrd - Tue 09 May 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) The scheme had been used by individuals who were, to quote the Statement,“at high risk of having obtained - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The American equivalent often engages lawyers with very considerable abilities who are at a relatively - Speech Link
3: Lord Oates (LDEM - Life peer) lawyers to begin drafting a treaty for the court. - Speech Link
4: None We have the City of London, and a great many lawyers, bankers and other people who, pointed in the right - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Foreign Policy - Wed 03 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Margaret Satterthwaite, the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, recently - Speech Link
2: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LDEM - Life peer) In my view, we have put at risk our attractiveness to international students and all the benefits of - Speech Link
3: Baroness Meyer (CON - Life peer) It has infiltrated every strand of our society, put children’s welfare at risk and directly attacked - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 27 Apr 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) It operates in 300 languages but employs 700 moderators globally to check what is happening. - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) That is to avoid a situation where platforms are guessing too much at what UK lawyers want; they should - Speech Link
3: None When I ran a working group with some French lawyers, including quite senior judges, they came into the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Buscombe (CON - Life peer) They are often quite isolated and working alone in remote communities, and are increasingly at risk of - Speech Link
5: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) At one point, I recall Ian Russell saying that one of the Meta lawyers said, “We are topic agnostic”. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Committee stage - Tue 25 Apr 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Cromwell (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Everyone has the right to defend themselves and their reputation, and lawyers have a role in seeing off - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) For the last 45 years, and long before that, before I was out of nappies, Queen’s Bench judges in the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blake of Leeds (LAB - Life peer) to take on board is about the serious concerns that SLAPPs are now being used to suppress democracy globally - Speech Link
4: None There are degrees of risk. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 29 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) the risk reward was better and they therefore took their business forward. - Speech Link
2: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) We already have a carve-out for senior judges, and there is even a special one for the Leader of the - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) of lawyers, tax accountants and specialists. - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) When the lawyers, tax accountants and everything else—the layer cake—is included, the cost will be phenomenal - Speech Link
5: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) alcohol in hospitality venues, but that jump was not mirrored globally. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Energy Charter Treaty - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Chris Skidmore (CON - Kingswood) leaving them bound by undemocratic regulations that are fought over by fossil fuel lawyers in courts - Speech Link
2: Chris Skidmore (CON - Kingswood) back investment in clean energy and puts British taxpayers at increased risk from costly legal challenges - Speech Link
3: Chris Skidmore (CON - Kingswood) I think we are the first country globally to ensure that we have a Department for net zero, which must - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
2nd reading - Mon 13 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) That is criminal gangs, making £180 million a year from putting lives at risk, yet over the same period - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) We need urgent action to stop the dangerous boat crossings that are putting lives at risk and undermining - Speech Link
3: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) They might say that their human rights are at risk and that would be a legitimate claim for them not - Speech Link
4: Ben Spencer (CON - Runnymede and Weybridge) immigration and put at risk the very people we want to help. - Speech Link
5: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) If the Government seriously wanted to protect the lives at risk from small boat crossings, they would - Speech Link