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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Criminal Court Reform

"My Lords, I thank my noble friend for repeating the Statement and I welcome almost everything in it. I wanted to raise one point which I am less happy about. Brian Leveson recommended for the Crown Court Bench Division that it should be a judge and two magistrates but the …..."
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede - View Speech

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Sentencing Bill

"My Lords, I support my noble friends and the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, in the amendments they have spoken to in this group. The noble Lord, Lord Foster, was quite right to draw attention to gambling and how that can be an addiction, like other addictions which are …..."
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede - View Speech

View all Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Sentencing Bill
Scheduled Event - Tuesday 6th May - Add to calendar
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Lords - Orders and regulations - Grand Committee
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Domestic Abuse) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025
Department: Ministry of Justice
MP: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Scheduled Event - 6 May 2025, 3:45 p.m. - Add to calendar
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Lords - Orders and regulations - Grand Committee
Whiplash Injury (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Department: Ministry of Justice
MP: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Scheduled Event - Monday 17th March - Add to calendar
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Lords - Orders and regulations - Grand Committee
Online Procedure Rules (Specified Proceedings) Regulations 2025
Department: Ministry of Justice
MP: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Scheduled Event - Monday 17th March - Add to calendar
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Lords - Orders and regulations - Grand Committee
Civil Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 2025
Department: Ministry of Justice
MP: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Scheduled Event - Tuesday 10th December
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Lords - Orders and regulations - Main Chamber
Home Detention Curfew and Requisite and Minimum Custodial Periods (Amendment) Order 2024
Department: Ministry of Justice
MP: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Scheduled Event - Monday 11th November
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Lords - Orders and regulations - Grand Committee
Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Department: Ministry of Justice
MP: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Bill
Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025
Presented by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Labour)
Government Bill - Ministry of Justice
Summary

A Bill to make provision about the types of things that are not prevented from being objects of personal property rights.

Written Question
Parole
Wednesday 22nd November 2023

Asked by: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government, regarding provisions in the Victims and Prisoners Bill for a ministerial veto and subsequent appeal to the Upper Tribunal for 'top tier' parole decisions, what assessment they have made of the importance of clarity and finality of parole decision making for (1) the victims of crime, (2) prisoners, and (3) the safe and efficient management of prisons; and of the likely impact of these new stages of the parole process.

Answered by Lord Bellamy

The Victims and Prisoners Bill has not yet reached Report stage in the House of Commons, meaning it is not in the final form in which it will be introduced to the House of Lords. I look forward to debating this Bill with the Noble Lord and others shortly once it has reached the House of Lords in the form approved by the House of Commons.