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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Feb 2015
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]

"We have to base the law on the law. There is no mention of this in the 1967 Act. There was no possibility of mentioning it in the Act, because it was not possible to determine gender when it was passed. Keir Starmer is therefore absolutely right: the law is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Feb 2015
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]

"If the whole House is agreed that it is morally repugnant to destroy a foetus simply on the basis of its gender—it is usually a girl—let us make that explicit in law...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Feb 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"T4. I understand that if the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union in a referendum—the United Kingdom as a whole—the Scottish Parliament will, under the vow, have to pass a legislative consent motion before it can happen. Is that not a recipe for constitutional crisis?..."
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Written Question
Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
Wednesday 30th April 2014

Asked by: Edward Leigh (Conservative - Gainsborough)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, whether he has given advice to the Government on whether the removal of President Yanukovich was in accord with the provisions of Article III of the Constitution of Ukraine.

Answered by Oliver Heald

By long-standing convention, observed by successive administrations and embodied in the Ministerial Code, the fact that the Law Officers may or may not have advised or have been requested to advise on a particular issue, and the content of any advice, is not disclosed outside Government.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Oct 2013
Abortion Act

"My hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr Burrowes) must be congratulated on securing this debate, which is extremely topical and follows a great deal of reporting on this very serious issue. It is virtually impossible to be prosecuted in this country for carrying out an illegal abortion. I …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Oct 2013
Abortion Act

"Yes, I am grateful to my hon. Friend—it is quite wrong. India’s 2011 census shows 7.1 million fewer girls than boys under the age of six—a gap that has almost doubled over two decades. Rather than a function of villages being backward or poor, this is a phenomenon that grows …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 27 Mar 2012
Assisted Suicide

"The hon. Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield) spoke with great emotion. Like his father, my mother died at the age of 87; it is very difficult for us to speak about these very personal matters. I know that my mother, like many elderly people, wrongly felt that she was …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 27 Mar 2012
Assisted Suicide

"I recognise that point of view and that is why, although I have expressed myself so far, some would say, with too much moral certainty, I realise that we are in a moral maze here. It is not for us to lecture people on what they may or may not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 27 Mar 2012
Assisted Suicide

"That is the point that I am trying to make, and that is the absolute principle that I hope this debate will proclaim. We want the law to recognise the appalling moral difficulties that people face. None of us in the Chamber speaking in this debate has yet embarked on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2011
Voting by Prisoners

"With respect to the right hon. Gentleman, is the problem not that his Government got us into this mess by incorporating the convention into our law? There is no way out now for this Government. There is a queue a mile long of people on no win, no fee cases, …..."
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