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Offender Rehabilitation Bill [HL] — Second Reading (20 May 2013)

Lord McNally: ...key ideas. I will follow up the idea from the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, on ex-service personnel because there is growing concern about how many of our ex-servicemen seem to end up in the criminal justice system as offenders. We will look at ideas that have worked and we will certainly follow them up. A number of noble Lords expressed concern about whether there will be scope for small...

Offender Rehabilitation Bill [HL] — Second Reading (20 May 2013)

Lord McNally: ...cases, and participation in activities that the supervisor thinks will support rehabilitation. Activities may cover a wide range of different interventions. For example, they could include restorative justice where appropriate and where both victim and offender consent. I remind noble Lords of the Government's strong commitment to increasing the use of restorative justice. In particular, I...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (9 May 2013)

Lord McNally: ...and practical agenda before us. Today we will be discussing constitutional affairs, equalities, home affairs and the proposed reforms to our legal and penal system under the broad heading of justice and the law. As always, the linkage in policy between the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office will be as a seamless robe and I am delighted that the debate today will be closed by my noble...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Alcohol: Rehabilitation Centres (25 April 2013)

Lord McNally: The Ministry of Justice (excluding law enforcement agencies) can confirm that it does not have any central records of contracts or commercial relationships with Transforming Choice Community Interest Company for rehabilitation or detoxification schemes. The Ministry of Justice carries out due diligence checks throughout the procurement cycle working within the legislative framework and...

Written Answers — House of Lords: King Richard III (25 April 2013)

Lord McNally: ...the University of Leicester has responsibility for storing and caring for the remains of King Richard III until they are laid to rest at a suitable location under the licence issued by Ministry of Justice pursuant to powers under the Burial Act 1857.

Written Answers — House of Lords: King Richard III (25 April 2013)

Lord McNally: As in all cases, it is for those granted a licence to exhume buried remains to determine where they are subsequently re-interred. The Ministry of Justice applied the same process when considering the application by the University of Leicester Archaeological Services Department to exhume buried remains that could have been those of Richard III, as they would with any other licence granted to...

Crime and Courts Bill [HL] — Commons Amendments (23 April 2013)

Lord McNally: ...a series of Commons amendments that form part of the cross-party deal on Leveson and ultimately seek to establish an incentive-based, self-regulatory system for the press as envisaged by Lord Justice Leveson. In advance of the debate on 25 March, the Government recognised that there was continuing concern in relation to the impact of the new system on small-scale blogs. Indeed, Lord...

Crime and Courts Bill [HL] — Commons Amendments (23 April 2013)

Lord McNally: ...comes within or outside the scope of any particular piece of legislation will fall to the courts. The intention of the definition is to capture news publishers who were the focus of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry and his subsequent recommendations. They are intended to act as the key incentive for those publishers to join the new press regulator, while also protecting those not intending...

Defamation Bill — Commons Reasons (23 April 2013)

Lord McNally: .... I have given enough assurances that we will make sure that the cost issue is clearly dealt with before this Bill comes into force. There are enough indications of the way that Parliament, Lord Justice Leveson and the CJC want to go that I am pretty confident that we can get a cost protection measure in parallel with the Bill which will satisfy the wishes of this House. Perhaps I may also...

Defamation Bill — Commons Reasons (23 April 2013)

Lord McNally: My Lords, Amendments 1, 15 and 16 constitute a partial enactment in statute of a number of the recommendations made by Lord Justice Leveson in his report on the culture, practices and ethics of the press. The reasons given by the other place for disagreeing with these amendments reflect the fact that, as the House will be aware, on 18 March cross-party talks were resolved successfully and a...

Defamation Bill — Commons Reasons (23 April 2013)

Lord McNally: ...to enable them to bring or defend a claim against an opponent with substantially greater resources. As I have explained, we are currently considering very carefully the recommendations of the Civil Justice Council that were recently submitted to the Secretary of State so that we can ensure that measures are put in place which provide effective protection in all cases involving an...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Prisons: Strip Searches (10 April 2013)

Lord McNally: ...on full searching of women. This review was conducted in light of the Gender Equality Duty introduced in 2007 and Baroness Corston's 2007 report Review of Women with Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System. The report identified the complex physical, psychological and social needs of women prisoners and made 43 recommendations, one of which was to reduce the number of full searches...

Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012: Motion to Regret (27 March 2013)

Lord McNally: ..., which were made with his usual quiet courtesy. The point that I made about remoteness, which is a cold, hostile kind of word, is that we underestimate what new technologies can do to help with access to justice. That is the point I was making. On the point he made about mediation, I certainly am not overclaiming for it. Mediation is certainly not a cure-all. However, I thought that he...

Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012: Motion to Regret (27 March 2013)

Lord McNally: ...violence; it goes wider than the regulations, but it is something to which this Parliament and this Government will have to return to address it properly. On special educational needs, the Ministry of Justice is in discussion with the Department for Education to ensure that gateway staff have sufficient training. We are confident that we have sufficient numbers to meet demand but, again,...

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2013: Motion to Approve (27 March 2013)

Lord McNally: Access to justice may also be by other forms of advice. Not all advice is legal advice.

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2013: Motion to Approve (27 March 2013)

Lord McNally: ...to the tribunal. The noble Lord will know that the tribunal system was initially conceived as a relatively lawyer-free zone where people could make their case. The other part of our reforms of justice is, in a whole range of measures, to offer different forms of mediation and arbitration that reduce what was becoming an over-lawyered system, including in tribunals.

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2013: Motion to Approve (27 March 2013)

Lord McNally: ...Opposition involved in these areas. I would say, though, that in 2010 we were faced with the situation in which there were going to be considerable cuts in government expenditure. The Ministry of Justice was faced with a budget settlement that had been cut by 23% and, as I have said, it is a department that spends money only on prisons, probation, court services and legal aid.

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2013: Motion to Approve (27 March 2013)

Lord McNally: ...debate to be had about the future of legal aid and our national commitment to it. Thus far, we have made hard decisions but I want to make sure that as far as possible we are not left with rough justice. On the point made by my noble friend Lord Phillips, we will keep the matter under review. I have asked all the various sectors of the MoJ that deal with these matters to keep monitoring...

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2013: Motion to Approve (27 March 2013)

Lord McNally: No, that is why I want to invite a discussion. The term “access to justice” is bandied around very freely. I do not want to provoke him but I see the menacing figure of the noble Lord, Lord Richard, just behind the noble Baroness. He would probably agree that access to justice and access to taxpayer-funded legal aid have never been the same thing and we must not get them confused....