(7 years, 11 months ago)
Lords Chamber Viscount Colville of Culross
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Viscount Colville of Culross 
        
    
        
    
        If I may put the record straight, it was not a BBC lawyer who advised me.
 Lord Keen of Elie
    
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Lord Keen of Elie 
        
    
        
    
        My respect for all lawyers remains undiminished.
As the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, observed, some issues of fundamental importance underlie this; I refer not just to press freedom but to fundamental rights. I therefore have welcomed the contributions to this debate, but I hope that at this time the noble Lord, Lord Black, will feel it appropriate to withdraw his amendment.