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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 18 Nov 2014
Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill

"I am not going to try to argue a fine legal point with the noble Lord but the fact of the matter is that the museum was advised that unless there were full and clear CRB checks for all individuals, it would be liable. This piece of legislation gives us …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

"My Lords, my name is on the amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Low, has made a powerful speech. I do not intend to repeat his arguments and I shall not detain the Committee long.

In this case we must surely be seeking a balance. There is the need to ensure …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

"My noble friend talks about the importance of this information being inquired about before sentencing. But is it not better that it should be inquired about at some point rather than not at all?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

"My Lords, my Amendment 42H is in this group, which I tabled in a rather more inquiring—and perhaps a rather less decided—frame of mind than the noble Lords, Lord Beecham and Lord Ramsbotham. I am not yet certain that there is not a role for new thinking on some commercial …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2014
Legal Systems: Rule of Law

"My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, for giving us the chance to debate this important topic. As he knows, and as my noble friend on the Front Bench knows, I am not a lawyer, so I would like to make three remarks from a lay …..."
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Written Question
Personal Injury: Compensation
Tuesday 24th June 2014

Asked by: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Faulks on 5 February (WA 238), whether they are now in a position to implement a revision to the personal injury discount rate.

Answered by Lord Faulks

The Government's review of the personal injury discount rate is still continuing and the position remains as stated in my Written Answer to my Noble Friend of 25 February 2014 (WA238).

Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 12 May 2014
Law Commission

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to prioritise and clear the backlog of Law Commission bills awaiting parliamentary consideration...."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 12 May 2014
Law Commission

"My Lords, my noble friend on the Front Bench is well aware that I am no lawyer. He and indeed other Members of the Committee may therefore wonder why I have trespassed into this rather specialist area of the legal world—the role of the Law Commission. The answer is that …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 12 May 2014
Law Commission

"The noble Lord, Lord Beecham, is clearly more expert than I am at this. Half an hour ago, the Printed Paper Office told me that it did not have a copy. I now know its whereabouts. I thought that it might be published with a view to trying to spike …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 12 May 2014
Law Commission

"I had conversations with the Law Commission about where we were on these various issues. In two of the cases that the noble Lord has mentioned, the commission was concerned that they would get it into the arena of party-political warfare and concluded that it was not suitable to proceed …..."
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