Rural Payments Agency: Basic Payment Scheme

Debate between Baroness Garden of Frognal and Lord Lloyd of Berwick

Tuesday 24th March 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

Increasingly that is the case, but the RPA has written to all farmers, who may not all be online, and equally to all those who may have broadband problems in the areas where broadband is not completely rolled out. By way of the helpline, the mobile units and so on, the RPA is trying to make sure that those who are not online get help.

[Lord Lloyd of Berwick (CB)]

My Lords, my particular problem is that I believe that I may have registered, but I cannot now find out whether I have registered or not. It seems to be impossible to discover.

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

My Lords, I am very sorry about that. Perhaps the noble and learned Lord needs to phone the RPA helpline and, like the noble Lord, Lord Davies, discover whether he exists. I wish him luck. The helpline and the contacts are there to try to iron out those initial problems.

Privacy Injunctions

Debate between Baroness Garden of Frognal and Lord Lloyd of Berwick

Monday 23rd May 2011 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

May I remind noble Lords that interventions should be brief in this session?

[Lord Lloyd of Berwick]

My Lords, I, too, greatly welcome the Statement and the report on which it is based. In recent years, one problem has been that a belief has got about that judges have a wide discretion on whether to grant a super-injunction. The report makes it absolutely clear, in paragraph 1.33, as recent cases had already made it clear, that there is no such discretion. The principle of open justice prevails unless it is absolutely and strictly necessary to depart from that principle in order to do justice in a particular case. That has long been the position and it is very good that it should have been reasserted in this Statement and report. They are obliged to act in accordance with the law as stated; they have no discretion.