All 1 Debates between Baroness Butler-Sloss and Lord Turnberg

Medical Innovation Bill [HL]

Debate between Baroness Butler-Sloss and Lord Turnberg
Friday 24th October 2014

(10 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Turnberg Portrait Lord Turnberg
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My Lords, I strongly support Amendment 2 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, for inserting the word “reasonable” for all the cogent reasons that he has given. Amendment 3 follows on from my earlier Amendment 1, which defines “relevant condition” and does not need further discussion here. I am very pleased to see that we have the agreement of the noble Lord, Lord Saatchi, that the word “reckless” will disappear from the Bill.

Baroness Butler-Sloss Portrait Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)
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My Lords, I strongly support the Bill as it is drafted. I am relieved that the noble Lord, Lord Saatchi, produced a short Bill; I hope that the House does not think that it was a bad idea to suggest that a short Bill might be more attractive than a longer one. For that reason I am not at all happy about the various amendments that were in the first part of our discussions today.

I do have reservations about the words in brackets in Clause 1(1), and I take the view that the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, is probably right to say that they should be excluded.