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Most recent annotations on things by Lord Bach
- ALVIN PRITCHARD: To quote the front cover of the Lloyd Inquiry report of 2004 ... “To investigate the circumstances that have led to the ill health, and in some cases death, of over 6,000 British troops... (14 February 2013)
Read annotation | All by this user - John Cross: this quote is relevant to interpreting Freedom of Information Act 2000 - http://foiman.com/archives/64#comment-15 2 (13 November 2010)
Read annotation | All by this user - Adam Hodge: It seems Lord Bach just couldnt answer Baroness Stern's question. She points out that the benchmarking is stripping all that is good from HMP Garth and Bach blathers on about how well the staff... (5 November 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Richard Taylor: Legislators brought the Freedom of Information Act in leaving the Information Commissioner to determine what is a reasonable period for conducting a public interest test. The commissioner's view... (25 October 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Kaihsu Tai: The link I posted above might not work. Try this one: http://republic.org.uk/commonwealth/ (8 July 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Kaihsu Tai: The other Commonwealth realms each has a separate corporation sole that is its Crown. In theory, any one can have a different monarch (and rules of succession) from another. (8 July 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - chris KEEFFE: To chznge the law of succesion in the UK would effect about 15 Crown Commowealth countries who regard the Bristish crown as head of state such as Australia and Canada. As Evan Harris MP pointed... (17 June 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Stephen Cox: I notice that the second question about bigamy has been ignored (9 June 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Arnold Tarling: Clearly the leaders of the mosques are making a mockery of our marriage laws by undertaking marriage ceremonies that bypass our laws. (29 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Arnold Tarling: Clearly failing to see the elephant in the room - To the Muslim these marriages ARE marriages. It is artificial to say that it does not create a polygamous marriage just because the ceremony is... (29 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - barbara richards: "There is no great delight in sending people to prison, but to a greater or lesser extent society needs to be protected from people who have committed serious offences." Is that so? Well, the... (28 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Dee Speers: West London Mental Health Trust (WLMHT)currently manage Feltham Young Offenders Institution (FYOI)and Broadmoor Hospital (BH) as well as providing key mental health services in the London area.... (28 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Adam Hodge: ''the fact is that in any modern society it is necessary to send people to prison. Prison is not just for punishment; it is for reform''. If what Lord Bach is saying is truthful why is it... (28 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - barbara richards: People who have been sexually abused as children do not appear to have any of these human rights. We are like aliens. (21 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - barbara richards: There are many criminals who should be in prison, but because they have influence and power they get away with their crimes. There are many people in prison who have been abused as children. Some... (21 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - David Wright: It has long been held that those who break the laws of the land should forfeit their right to vote during any period of incarceration they have brought upon themselves. It is self-evident that... (21 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Kaihsu Tai: It appears that the other realms did not have to be consulted at all on this change: http://www.webcitation.org/5g2Iru3JJ (14 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Tim Ottevanger: This answer, like those before it on this subject, apart from the reply to the Bishop of Chelmsford, show once again how timid this government is (see also reform of the voting system and the... (3 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Kaihsu Tai: Is it actually true that this ‘can happen only with the agreement of all the Commonwealth countries of which Her Majesty the Queen is the Head of State’? The countries have separate Crowns and do... (3 April 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - William Heath: As my mate Martyn points out: Why is the DNA database given credit for freeing the man wrongly held for 27 years for murder? I understood that the crime scene samples were analysed and compared... (30 March 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - barbara richards: It would be really nice if the State would stop stealing children from their mothers, and then putting the mothers into prison using strange syndromes made up by strange people, Richard Gardner,... (30 January 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Adam Hodge: Here is a glaring example of the uselessness of such a lovely sounding initiative..it failed the Birmingham prisoner miserably. (30 January 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Adam Hodge: I wonder if Lord Bach is satisfied that, despite the fine sounding initiatives he mentions there are still cases of deaths from Asthma. Does this possibly reflect the inadequacy of the current... (30 January 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Adam Hodge: The truth of the matter Lord Bach, as you well know, is that the Ombudsman, Stephen Shaw was lent upon by the Prison Service- they wanted to control his investigations. That in itself begs a... (29 January 2009)
Read annotation | All by this user - Adam Hodge: How encouraging that Lord Bach specifically states the next person following Brian Payling will be independant. What an extraordinary gaff of the M of J to appoint such a man in the first place.... (29 January 2009)
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