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Orders of the Day: Legal Services Bill [Lords] (4 Jun 2007)

Simon Hughes: ...everyone now is, of important and difficult legislation such as this going before a pre-legislative scrutiny Committee. The Committee in question did an extremely good and robust job, and Lord Hunt of Wirral, who is very well respected, was clear. The Committee did not consist of all lawyers. For example, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley (John Hemming), who certainly is...

Orders of the Day: Legal Services Bill [Lords] (4 Jun 2007)

Simon Hughes: ..., sometimes by Conservatives and sometimes by Liberal Democrats, and they were all moves in the right direction. That such proposals were indeed right is confirmed to me by the phrases used by Lord Hunt of Wirral, who supported and voted for either all or many of them. For example, he said the following on Second Reading about the alternative business structures proposal: "There are...

Orders of the Day: Compensation Bill [Lords] (8 Jun 2006)

Simon Hughes: ...responsibility for the Bill—and to the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Front Benchers, who worked very well together. Lots of amendments, and progress, were made. I also pay tribute to Lord Hunt of the Wirral, who did a lot of good work for the Conservative party. I looked to see what the general collective wisdom was at the end of the debate. Lord Goodhart said: "Part 2 has now...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 32 - Continuing duty of prosecutor to disclose (9 Jan 2003)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...on after the decision to prosecute has been taken by the CPS and can continue up to the door of the court and subsequently. In a long trial, that is what happens. The police are sent by the CPS to hunt for additional information. It seems that it was suggested that it was a weakness of the original proposal that it was not covered by the same safeguard, and that it should be. Can the...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice and Police Bill: New Clause 6 - Police directions stopping the harassment etc of a person in his home (6 Mar 2001)

Mr Simon Hughes: I absolutely understand that point. It would be a nonsense if the police had to take action against each individual, separately. The hon. Gentleman is right: hunt saboteurs or members of a civil protest movement, for example, might operate in shifts. The people in Whitehall or Parliament square might do their shift and then go home, to be replaced by another shift. That is how many protests...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice and Police Bill: Clause 17 - Effect of sections 14 to 16 on byelaws (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...word-processed form that takes into account the codification and tidying-up of the law. Byelaws do not relate or cross-refer to one another or legislation, so anyone who is intelligently trying to hunt through them to find relevant regulations is in difficulty. The legislation provides a way of making them easier to discover. There would be some merit in providing an easily accessible...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (17 Jan 2001)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...Whip and that all Labour Back Benchers are free to express their own view? Will he also confirm that it is thus up to the Committee to decide today whether it wants to amend, in respect of hunting, the previous settlement on the powers of the Welsh Assembly?

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

Mr Simon Hughes: The Liberal Democrat party has concluded that hunting with dogs should be banned. Although colleagues in this House and the other place know that it is the party's view, they also know that it will not be imposed on them. Like members of other parties, my colleagues will vote according to their conscience. [Interruption.] Liberal Democrat Members are in the same position as other hon....

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

Mr Simon Hughes: ...that that was so. For decades we have legislated for Northern Ireland, since it became a Province, with a minority of Northern Irish Members. So, I do not share the right hon. Gentleman's view that hunting should be only for Members representing English constituencies in this Parliament to decide upon. There is, however, an issue for the next election. Now that there is devolution to the...

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

Mr Simon Hughes: ...protect human beings. Another might be because animals are predatory and the greater interest requires their killing. A third might be because we want to eat them. One justification for fishing and hunting is that, by and large, we do so in order to eat.

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

Mr Simon Hughes: The right hon. and learned Gentleman is right, but one traditional justification for most fishing and most hunting is that it is carried out in order to eat. That is not of course the same as hunting with dogs. There is the question whether we should kill animals for pleasure alone. I would argue that we should not. The hunting argument is justified not because it gives pleasure alone but...

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

Mr Simon Hughes: ...account of evidence such as that arising from the Burns inquiry, which asks the question: is there an alternative? If we are persuaded that some foxes must be killed and there is no alternative to hunting, we might be driven to a conclusion that we do not like, but are forced to accept. However, that is not the view expressed in the Burns report. People often justify hunting on the basis...

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

Mr Simon Hughes: ...the House, we would have to face that. However, although there are issues relating to cruelty in those activities, that is not the nature of the proposition before us now. The Bill relates only to hunting with dogs of foxes, deer and hares, and in that respect the evidence is clear.

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

Mr Simon Hughes: My hon. Friend's question is perfectly proper, but the Government have introduced a Bill that deals with hunting with dogs and that is the proposition that we must deal with. As my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, South (Mr. Hancock) said, a separate debate took place some years ago on whether to ban firearms. Each proposition may pose different questions. The proposition before us...

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

Mr Simon Hughes: ...is wrong, one cannot justify its continuation because there are difficulties in those parts of the country in which that activity predominantly takes place. Some say that we must not get rid of hunting because it is symbolic of English life. Bullfighting is symbolic of Spanish life, but it is no more justifiable than is foxhunting in England. Life moves on, for heaven's sake. There were...

Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Inner Cities (12 Dec 2000)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...policy is often difficult to define, and that the principle of defending civil liberties behind policies is often not to be seen at all. There are five Home Office Bills. We shall talk about the Hunting Bill on Monday, so I do not intend to detain the House on it, other than to say that our party is opposed to hunting with hounds but our manifesto commitment was that everyone in both...

Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Inner Cities (12 Dec 2000)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...the proposed abolition of anyone's right to choose jury trial as strongly in this Session as we did in the last. He selected five Home Office Bills as part of a programme of only 15 Bills—the Hunting Bill and four others. He is determined to reduce crime. Do objective figures show that the abolition of the right to choose jury trial will significantly reduce crime or increase the...

Orders of the Day — Race Relations (Amendment) Bill [Lords]: Repeals (30 Oct 2000)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...mark all the time; I wish its new chief executive and director well. I thank people such as Richard Jarman and Barbara Cohen, who serve us well. I pay tribute also to a researcher of mine, Simon Hunt, who has now left for better-paid employment at the Greater London Authority. He did all the work on this Bill until, literally, a couple of weeks ago. My hon. Friend the Member for West...

Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill: Committal for Sentence (25 Jul 2000)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...question, if, in the meantime and since he was asked to do it, they have been determined to legislate when they have not had any answer? I do not understand the logic. They did not do it on fox hunting—they set up a commission, got the inquiry and then announced how they were going to proceed.

Hunting With Dogs (12 Jun 2000)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...ensure that a report selling at £32.50 is made fully available to people throughout the country on a website and in other ways, so that everyone who wants to do so can read it? In relation to the hunting of foxes, deer, mink and hares, does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the big issue is whether the country wants to decide that hunting with hounds is the only acceptable or...