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Criminal Justice: Women (7 Feb 2008)

Baroness Corston: ...noble Lords today have done that for me and have raised so many different issues to which I drew attention. I have been heartened by the response of Ministers to my report. My noble friend Lord Hunt will know that it is not my way to get on my feet and make remarks in the Chamber. Over my parliamentary life I have found that it is far better to talk to people one to one to persuade them,...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Ms Jean Corston: I am delighted that, once again, the House of Commons has voted by an overwhelming majority in favour of a Bill to ban hunting. I have been a lifelong opponent of hunting and my opposition was reinforced before Christmas last year when I saw a fox being torn apart by hounds of the Beaufort hunt just off the public highway. I want to refer particularly to the human rights aspects of the...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Ms Jean Corston: ...into a criminal. People will become criminals if they decide to disobey the law. What would be a reasonable commencement date? What would be a reasonable period for people with contracts related to hunting to make alternative arrangements? The hunting season has started, and it is evident that people have made financial and employment commitments to cover this season. I would suggest that...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Ms Jean Corston: ...election before 31 July 2006, which is the date referred to in the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham. The Countryside Alliance has said that 59 per cent. of people support hunting, but I have never accepted or believed that figure. The important thing is, however, that if the alliance thinks that the British people feel that it has right on its side, it will have...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Ms Jean Corston: No, I will not. In my opinion, and according to most opinion polls, the majority of people in this country are opposed to hunting. Even if they were not, I am opposed to it—if the majority of people in this country were in favour of capital punishment, I would still be opposed to it—and I have to say what I think is right. I do not think that what I saw the Beaufort hunt hounds...

Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill (11 Jan 1994)

Ms Jean Corston: ...interest young people; and something to control the alarming increase in drug addiction and abuse, particularly among the very young. Instead, they have a Bill that is concerned with squatters, hunt saboteurs and travellers. It is simply no solution. It is being pushed through in the face of all informed professional opinion. We should not be surprised by that, as it is par for the...

Estimates Day: Domestic Violence (21 Jul 1993)

Ms Jean Corston: .... We should also deal with the questions raised by the programme "The Bounty Hunter", which was on BBC2 some time ago, and which revealed how men in the Asian community make a nice living out of hunting like animals women who flee from domestic violence and violent relationships. The subterfuges that the bounty hunters use to track down women and drag them back home are alarming, and I...