Results 1-20 of 24 for hunting speaker:Lord Carlile of Berriew

Criminal Justice Act 2003: Sentencing (11 Dec 2007)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...Because of the failings of the Government, a fairly large number of IPP prisoners are likely to be released if the Court of Appeal finds the detention unlawful". I welcome seeing the Minister, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, in his place to answer on behalf of the Government. Your Lordships will know that he is almost always entirely reasonable, but it will not be sufficient for this debate if...

Secure Training Centre (Amendment) Rules 2007 (18 Jul 2007)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. I am grateful for the opportunity that I have enjoyed to consult and discuss these matters with the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, who has been as helpful as ever, with the Minister of State, David Hanson, who is known for his fairness and objectivity, and with the Youth Justice Board. All have shown the utmost...

Legal Services Bill [HL] (18 Apr 2007)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: My Lords, we on these Benches broadly support the amendment that the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, has moved so eloquently. On the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Clinton-Davis, which is plainly important, will the Minister confirm in her reply that nothing in the clause excludes the appointment to the Consumer Panel of a qualified lawyer who does not hold a practising certificate? My...

Mental Health Bill [HL] (8 Jan 2007)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...Committee that considered the previous draft Mental Health Bill, I make some comments about this amendment, which I support. However, before I start, I welcome the return of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, to the Front Bench dealing with health matters. He and I go back a long way. We were dealing with health matters together long before either of us was a Member of this House. I...

Government of Wales Bill (3 May 2006)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: I support what has just been said by my noble friend Lord Thomas of Gresford and the noble Lord, Lord Hunt. The history of this appointment is not altogether happy. As has been said, Mr Roddick, who was the first Counsel General, regarded himself, and was widely regarded, as being entirely independent. Those who have discussed his appointment with Mr Roddick know that there were uncomfortable...

Hunting Bill (15 Nov 2004)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ..., I wish to say a few words about the compromise, in particular. When this process started, those of us who oppose a ban believed that no action or very little action was needed on the control of hunting. I hope that Members of the Commons who take the trouble to read this debate will realise that the compromise has been almost all on one side. From time to time during the passage of the...

Hunting Bill (11 Nov 2004)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...your soul in those two activities over 30 or so years, it never will. However, I do not believe that what is on offer is a compromise at all. I have only ever become involved in this argument about hunting over these many years—in this House, in another place and outside—because of my concern about sheep farming in rural Wales. I have never hunted. I have been out with a...

Hunting Bill (26 Oct 2004)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...Middle Way Group and propositions connected with it have a very long history. Some Members of this House have for very many years sought a compromise both here and in another place on the issue of hunting foxes with hounds—some for much longer than the 20 years that I have been involved in one way or another in this place and in the other House. I remind the Minister that there have...

Hunting Bill (26 Oct 2004)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...of Wales—we can manage impenetrable subtlety and enduring intellectual integrity with an ease that would baffle the English. I wish to make three points. The first is that the character of hunting in Wales is singular, as the noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, said. I have received a very large number of letters on the Bill from people in Powys—mostly, as it happens, from former...

Hunting Bill (26 Oct 2004)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...Clause 1. It is what is called in my profession and by the judiciary a reverse onus provision. It requires the person charged to prove on the balance of probabilities that he believed that the hunting was now register exempt and to prove that that belief was reasonable. It would be helpful if the Minister could confirm that the Government either have taken into account or will take into...

Hunting Bill (12 Oct 2004)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...noble Baroness in the future. As a fledgling Member of another place in 1983, I was asked to attend a meeting in a village hall in rural Montgomeryshire. I agreed to go. I was told the subject was hunting, and expected an audience of approximately a dozen. In fact, there were approximately 700 and a dozen there. There were perhaps a dozen toffs there, I suspect among the poorest in the...

Hunting Bill (28 Oct 2003)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: With great respect, the noble Lord is wrong. In the Government's own words, hare coursing is hunting. He should look at the penultimate word in Clause 5(3).

Hunting Bill (28 Oct 2003)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: With respect to the Minister, does hare coursing involve "hunting hares"—the words used by the Government in Clause 5(3)—or not? If not, why is it in subsection (3)?

Hunting Bill (28 Oct 2003)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...sheep should be protected from foxes in Llanberis, but not in Llandinam, a place mentioned by the noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, when he referred to my close friend Lord Davies of Llandinam, whose hunt I have followed on foot, along with all those ordinary farmers and other people from far and wide who do not wear regalia or anything of that kind and who follow such hunts. If one looks at...

Hunting Bill (21 Oct 2003)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...may by order amend Schedule 1". That is reasonably clear. However, it then appears to limit the amendments the Secretary of State may make by providing the purpose, "so as to vary a class of exempt hunting". Schedule 1 contains several classes of exempt hunting, each of which is given a title which presumably defines the class. For example, paragraph 6 is headed "Falconry". What can the...

Criminal Justice Bill (15 Oct 2003)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: .... As regards the operation of the whole of the Terrorism Act 2000, my next report will be published around the turn of the year. As my noble friend Lord Thomas of Gresford, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, and others said, it is extremely rare for detention without charge of as much as seven days to take place. There are controls upon the exercise of detention for longer periods permitted under...

Hunting Bill (16 Sep 2003)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...has yet mentioned a letter that many of your Lordships have received, dated, I think, 12th September, from Sir Ronald Waterhouse, who wrote on behalf of the Independent Supervisory Authority for Hunting. Voluntary regulation has been carried out for some time, and Sir Ronald provides evidence that regulation can and does work. The House should take that into account. I agree with my noble...

Wild Mammals (Protection) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill [HL] (7 Mar 2003)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...my 32 years as a barrister I have made far more money defending people against the outrages committed against them by so-called animal liberationists than I have ever made from anything to do with hunting—by a multiplier of, perhaps, 150.

Wild Mammals (Protection) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill [HL] (7 Mar 2003)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...on it often in another place. I come here this afternoon to speak with two hats on—as somebody who is Welsh-born and domiciled and also as a lawyer. I wish to concentrate in particular on hunting foxes with dogs. I am a Liberal Democrat; I was a Liberal and Liberal Democrat MP for 14 years. I regret that my party has seen fit to treat what I regard as a matter of conscience as a...

Countryside and Tourism (17 Oct 2001)

Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...feel the threatened species which they have become. Finally, if the Government really want to demonstrate their commitment to helping the countryside, for heaven's sake leave off the trivia of hunting, at least in this parliamentary Session, and let us rebuild rural life.