"My Lords, this order is required before the UK can ratify the convention establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine. Noble Lords will remember that the UK signed the convention on 16 December 2025.
The international claims commission builds on the register of damage for Ukraine established two years earlier, …..." Lord Wood of Anfield - View Speech
"That the Grand Committee do consider the International Claims Commission for Ukraine (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2026...." Lord Wood of Anfield - View Speech
"I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Bruce, and the noble Earl, Lord Courtown, for their contributions. I will try to quickly answer their questions. The noble Lord, Lord Bruce, asked whether the commission has started work. No, it has not started work yet. The register of damages has …..." Lord Wood of Anfield - View Speech
"My Lords, these regulations revoke and re-enact, with expanded purposes and designations criteria, the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020.
This instrument was laid on 13 October, under powers in the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. The measures in this instrument, subject to the made affirmative parliamentary procedure, entered …..." Lord Wood of Anfield - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this debate, and I echo what the noble Lord, Lord Walney, said about Meta Ramsay. We all miss her very much. I am sure he is right that she would have disagreed with many, if not the preponderance, of today’s …..." Lord Wood of Anfield - View Speech
"I thank the noble Baroness; I am familiar with that document—I may even have had a hand in helping to write it. There is confusion, if the noble Baroness does not mind me saying so, at the heart of her point. On 8 September, the Foreign Secretary announced two things—in …..." Lord Wood of Anfield - View Speech
In recent years, the UK has transformed its use of sanctions and continues to lead internationally in their implementation. This amended global human rights and international humanitarian law regime gives us a stronger and more flexible means of promoting accountability and …..." Lord Wood of Anfield - View Speech
"My Lords, I am also very grateful to my noble friend Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale for securing this debate and for the way he opened it with his experience, reflections and wisdom on this broad issue. I pay tribute to his work as co-chair of the All-Party Group on conflict …..." Lord Wood of Anfield - View Speech