Results 1-16 of 16 for hunting speaker:Dominic Grieve

Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]: Schedule 7 — Acts of the Assembly (30 Jan 2006)

Dominic Grieve: I have some sympathy with the amendment on hunting with dogs. The difficulty, which we must face up to and which comes even more to the fore on the amendments to do with prisons, probation and the police, is that if we are to have a unified legal system, as England and Wales do, then while it is possible to have diversity within regulatory frameworks, to start to move towards dealing with...

Family Court Cases (24 Feb 2004)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...belief that somebody must be responsible for everything and that nothing should remain inexplicable. Taken together, those views have become powerful forces in initiating what turn out to be witch hunts. We then latch on to the people who will help us to carry them out, and I am afraid that that is what appears to have happened in the case of Sir Roy Meadow. He provided an answer to a...

Criminal Justice Bill (20 Nov 2003)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...to the end, so the Moloch of the Government's grinding-down machine starts to come into operation. It is greatly to the credit of my friends in the other place, Lord Kingsland, Lady Anelay and Lord Hunt, that they and others resisted that pressure consistently so that we could arrive at the end at an outcome that protects the principles of jury trial. I very much regret that the...

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 25 - Inadequacy of available amount: (27 Nov 2001)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...that reason, clause 25 must have a purpose, and that is simplicity. Nothing would be more straightforward than a case in which exchange rates caused the problem. There is no question of going to hunt for assets that are not present, or even the complex question of valuing a painting on a wall that must be subsequently sold. The matter is straightforward for exchange rates, stocks and...

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 2 - Director's functions: general (13 Nov 2001)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...the Minister see future guidance being developed? Above all, what opportunity will the House have to debate such guidance? The Bill sets out clearly what the director should do. He is supposed to hunt for the proceeds of crime by confiscation or civil recovery. That is an onerous task and one that is clearly a quasi-prosecutor's role. I was a little alarmed when the Minister drew a...

Schedule: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...and is, in practical terms, completely irrelevant. It is right that we have a Scottish Parliament that passes laws for its part of the United Kingdom, but it has not passed any laws to ban foxhunting, which remains a lawful activity there. From my visits to Edinburgh as Conservative spokesman for Scotland, it is clear to me that Lord Watson's Bill may never reach the statute book, so...

Schedule: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Dominic Grieve: I do not understand the Minister's final piece of reasoning. It can be the will of this Parliament to do what it likes. If this Parliament willed that hunting should be banned in England and Wales, but that, because of the problem of hunting on the border, there should be an exemption for Scottish hunts that crossed the border, there would be nothing abnormal or odd about it. Will the...

Orders of the Day — Social Security Contributions (Share Options) Bill (Programme): Business of the House (23 Jan 2001)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...that, with which I heartily concurred. I hope that I will not be considered to be out of order if I gently point out to the Parliamentary Secretary that having adhered to that policy in respect of the Hunting Bill when it was a private Member's Bill—the Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill—and seen it consigned to oblivion by the House for the very reasons that the hon....

Orders of the Day — Human Rights (Joint Committee) (15 Jan 2001)

Mr Dominic Grieve: I hear my right hon. Friend say "Hunting". That will prove to be an interesting issue. I have serious reservations about the compatibility of the legislation on hunting that we shall be considering on Wednesday—or at least one option with which we shall be presented—with the Human Rights Act. That will have to be considered at a later stage. It is because I have these anxieties...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Dominic Grieve: I appreciate that that will not have altered the hon. Gentleman's view about hunting, but I wonder whether it should alter his view about whether we should criminalise an activity that is regarded as acceptable by people who he felt, having met them, he had cause to respect. I asked the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Bradley) that question, but he seemed to find it difficult and unpleasant....

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Dominic Grieve: If the hon. Gentleman has studied the Burns report, he will have seen that Burns was particularly concerned that hares would disappear most rapidly if hunting were stopped. The hunting system, whether with beagles or harriers, provides a regulatory mechanism while minimising the desire of farmers otherwise to deal with hares as pests.

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...He might be referring to my previous intervention, but I certainly did not make that suggestion, although I did say that the matter touches on an individual's conscience. If one talks to people who hunt, one can easily ascertain how deeply it affects their conscience and how deeply they object to a ban. They are often people who lead moral lives, participating actively in the community in...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...many of his colleagues, he has taken an absolutist standpoint, and I respect him for it. The Burns report suggests that the objective evidence that the degree of suffering that may be caused to a hunted animal is so different from that which is caused to animals in other settings does not justify the hon. Gentleman's point and the infringement of other people's liberties. If I thought that...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Dominic Grieve: If the hon. Gentleman believes, as he said he did, that the views of those who hunted were of equal validity to his own, his argument is either completely spurious and advanced simply as a decoration, or it is so inconsistent that it is not worth listening to.

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...? For instance, the practice of halal butchery is allowed in this country, and it is an exception to regulations that are otherwise imposed. Does my hon. Friend agree that it is extraordinary for hunting to be singled out, when the Government are prepared to extend courtesy to practices about which pluralism is the very word that they use?

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Bicentenary (19 Dec 2000)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...an element of forbearance and understanding between all parties? Does he also agree that it would be most undesirable if, for instance, Scottish Members of Parliament were to vote tomorrow on the Hunting Bill which concerns England and Wales alone?