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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Nov 2013
Sentencing Council: Guidelines

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what sentencing guidelines are issued by the Sentencing Council to advise judges on the choice of the imposition of either consecutive or concurrent sentences on persons guilty of multiple offences...."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Nov 2013
Sentencing Council: Guidelines

"I thank the Minister for his reply, but does he not agree that perception is everything? The Sentencing Council admits that:

“Concurrent sentences are sometimes thought to mean that an offender is getting away with some offences”.

Why, indeed, should an offender convicted of, say, causing death by dangerous driving, …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 27 May 2010
Queen's Speech

"My Lords, there is an old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times”. Well, we all are here now. The one thing that Members of your Lordships’ House on all sides can say is that none of us voted for the present situation...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 27 May 2010
Queen's Speech

"Yes, of course, it does not include us in this House.

What we witnessed in the five days after election night is but a foretaste of what we can expect if the country turns to proportional representation: days of beer and sandwiches-type haggling and the wholesale abandonment of manifesto commitments …..."

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