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Commons Chamber
Risk-based Exclusion - Mon 13 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Karen Bradley (Con - Staffordshire Moorlands) Across the United Kingdom, arrest can happen at different points, depending on the force and the legal - Speech Link
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Con - North East Somerset) The House has exclusive cognisance about its own affairs, but acting as the whole House. - Speech Link
3: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) constitutional aspect. - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) talked about the legal differences between Scotland and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Recognition of Western Sahara as Moroccan - Wed 08 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) Is it the fact that we cannot recognise Western Sahara as being Moroccan because there is some legal, - Speech Link
2: Rehman Chishti (Con - Gillingham and Rainham) freedom of religion or belief, based in the Foreign Office, and I have a keen interest in foreign affairs - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Affairs, Nasser Bourita. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) Clause 1 amends Section 58AA of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990. - Speech Link
2: None law retrospectively where such a change affects individuals or corporations who have arranged their affairs - Speech Link
3: None The relationship between legal expenses insurance, crowdfunding and litigation funding—or, on the other - Speech Link
4: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) wrong satellite nature, but simply allows matters to proceed as they were until July last year.For good constitutional - Speech Link
5: None The Bill will enhance access to justice and the attractiveness of the thriving United Kingdom legal sector - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
British Nationality (Irish Citizens) Bill
3rd reading - Fri 26 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) benefit from what I have described throughout the parliamentary process as the final piece in a long constitutional - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) On behalf of the Minister for Legal Migration and the Border, my hon. - Speech Link
3: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) it—and I thank the Minister for Legal Migration and the Border, the hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Ocean Treaty - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Gosh—the first time I was a Minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, I really - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) considerable burdens on the already strained capacity of the overseas territories’ Governments.The unique constitutional - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) of the legal mechanisms and instruments contained in this treaty or others or in their own competence - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) process for the scrutiny of treaties by Parliament, which is 21 sitting days under section 20 of the Constitutional - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part two - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) So, while we accept the principle that legal remedies should be available, we do not believe that forfeiture - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Other legal routes can be extremely costly, lengthy and ineffective. - Speech Link
3: None Urban Development Act 1993;”Companies Act 2006 13 In section 1181 of the Companies Act 2006 (access to constitutional - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) As a consequence, it has not had the legal standing to issue invoices to its tenants for its service - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) That is why there are legal routes for them to come to the UK. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) In that sense maybe because we are familiar with the Government and the legal systems of, for example - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) being about the Lords blocking anything or delaying anything, it is the Lords performing its proper constitutional - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) There is a safe and legal route available to those in Afghanistan who have served and can prove their - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 22 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) I will advise the other place to do what it is doing, as a revising Chamber: standing up for its constitutional - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) legal routes in place in the shape of the ARAP and the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme, but that - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) many will not have been able to use family reunion, which is an existing safe and legal route.Given - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) The issue of refoulement, which was the Supreme Court’s major complaint, has been dealt with, and legal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) It would be extremely difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal activity. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) The reason I brought in the South Africa comparison, and majored on it, is that legal opinion says that - Speech Link
3: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) major constitutional issues. - Speech Link
4: None rights or international law, and there was widespread criticism from the legal community. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) constitutional propriety. - Speech Link
2: William Cash (Con - Stone) constitutional propriety. - Speech Link
3: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) by the Government of Rwanda, and which has come into force in our law through the Constitutional Reform - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) Surely Lords amendment 3E is an entirely proper and legal amendment if the Government deem that the measure - Speech Link