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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Crime and Policing Bill

"My Lords, although this Bill is extremely wide-ranging, as has been pointed out, and plainly lacks focus, we have had an interesting and diffuse debate and we can discern something now of the Government’s central aims: first, to help halve violence against women and girls; secondly, to protect children from …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 09 Sep 2025
Interpreting Services in the Courts (Public Services Committee Report)

"My Lords, at the end of a debate of very high quality, I join with others in commending this report, and the work of the committee, so ably chaired by the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Yardley. I thank her for her opening: I hope I will not repeat any …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Removal of Prisoners for Deportation) Order 2025

"My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for his helpful and brief introduction to what is, in effect, a relatively simple instrument. It comes against a background, as he explained, of the appalling shortage of prison places that the Government inherited and that has only got worse, inevitably, …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2025

"My Lords, in considering this instrument, I once again express our gratitude to the Minister for the way in which he set out the justification for the instrument and its background, particularly the fact that the Law Commission review will take some time to happen. I thank the noble and …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"Such protections as would be afforded would depend on the individual case and on such measures as the tribunal thought appropriate; they might indeed include anonymity or witness protection in an extreme case. I do not believe that that is likely, but I do believe that the right of the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"There might be others. Then again, there might not. I quite accept that a Secretary of State would have to weigh up very carefully the competing considerations in favour of the public interest in having a point determined against the private interest of the worker concerned in not being involved …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"The noble Lord has plainly given the Government solid pause for thought on that point, because of course any proceedings before a tribunal of first instance can be withdrawn by the litigants. The litigants in this case would be the Secretary of State and the other party—presumably the employer. If …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"My Lords, I have not spoken on the Bill before and I apologise for entering these debates at this late stage. Indeed, I start by saying that I have considerable sympathy with the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Carter of Haslemere, to leave out Clause 113. As he …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"I do not understand why the Secretary of State should not have that information as a matter of public record, or why he should not have become aware of it. Plainly, if the Secretary of State and his department do not have the faintest idea about the case, they are …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"My Lords, I am sorry to get up again, but would the Minister like to say something about adverse costs orders against workers?..."
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