Results 1-20 of 67 for terrorism speaker:Edward Garnier

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners Release: Terrorism (12 Oct 2009)

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders convicted of terrorism offences are housed in approved premises in England and Wales.

Public Bill Committee: : Clause 61 (5 Mar 2009)

Edward Garnier: ...his wife’s experience on the bench—lay magistrates and district judges already deal with highly sensitive applications, including search warrants. Other applications, such as those under terrorism legislation or those relating to searching bank accounts and the production of bank records, are made to the Crown court. However, that does not matter; I am not sufficiently anxious...

Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 59 (3 Mar 2009)

Edward Garnier: ..., such as blunt instruments and domestic appliances—saucepans, frying pans, you name it, Mr. Gale, these unattractive people will lay their hands on anything that they can get hold of to wreak terror. It strikes me that if the clause is to do what it is supposed to do, which is make it easier to prosecute and to bring adducible and relevant evidence to court, it would be sensible not...

Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 59 (3 Mar 2009)

Edward Garnier: Yes, and at the moment, one cannot get an investigation anonymity order when the terror on the estate or in the locality has been caused by gangs riding around on motorbikes swinging baseball bats. I entirely take on board the right hon. Gentleman’s point, and I hope that, if the Government resist my amendment, he will be able to twist their arm—possibly with a baseball bat.

Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 152 (26 Feb 2009)

Edward Garnier: ...Mohamed was flown back to Britain”— the suggestion was from the mouth of Sir Ken Macdonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions— “legislators have foolishly pursued tough terror laws when we should be locking up City fraudsters instead.” She commented: “Sir Ken’s sensible, if wishful, suggestion also had a wider point: that the...

Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 11 (24 Feb 2009)

Edward Garnier: ...be extremely careful before allowing any Secretary of State, of any political party, those sorts of powers. As night follows day, we will end up in the position similar to that under the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, as I described, in which perfectly innocent and sensible activities are suppressed at the say-so of a police constable—it is not the same, but it is of similar character. I...

Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 11 (24 Feb 2009)

Edward Garnier: ...: “Azelle Rodney died in April 2005 after a police operation in north London in which he was shot seven times—the circumstances surrounding his shooting had nothing to do with counter terrorism”, or national security, but involved criminal allegations. “Azelle was shot after the car he was in was ordered to ‘hard stop’ after being under police surveillance for...

Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 11 (24 Feb 2009)

Edward Garnier: ...I also draw attention to a proposal made right at the end of the brief from Inquest, which deals with suggestions made by my noble Friend Baroness Miller in the other place during the passage of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008. She suggested that section 18 of RIPA should be amended to allow RIPA material to be disclosed solely to the High Court judge conducting a secret inquest, and...

Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 11 (24 Feb 2009)

Edward Garnier: ...this sort of clause becomes available to be used by the authorities, they will use it. One has only to look at the hoo-hah at the weekend over the coming into force of certain parts of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 to see what happens. Under section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act, entitled “Offences relating to information about members of armed forces etc”, it is now an...

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (19 Nov 2008) has video

Edward Garnier: ...Vaz), who is also my neighbour, the matters that we are dealing with today do not represent closure. By the very nature of the Government and the Home Secretary's production of the draft Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill, in which clause 1(2) substitutes 42 days for 28 days, they are constantly reminding us that the Home Secretary found the decision of the other place to stick...

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (19 Nov 2008) has video

Edward Garnier: ...been killed by the police under the provisions relating to corporate manslaughter, the trial should be heard in secret, and only by a High Court judge, subject to the provisions of the Counter-Terrorism Bill? It is not only members of the public, be they British or foreign nationals, who will be drawn into the inquest system. Military deaths have been mentioned. We all know of the huge...

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (19 Nov 2008) has video

Edward Garnier: ...Queen's Speech, and it strikes me that the issues we are discussing ought to be dealt with discretely, in the round, in a coroners Bill. However, measures are now being tacked on to a Counter-Terrorism Bill. This brings into our discussions all sorts of interesting influences. Hon. Members will remember the problems that the Prime Minister got himself into with the Government of Iceland,...

Written Answers — Justice: Terrorism: Prisoner Release (24 Apr 2008)

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many persons awaiting trial for, or convicted of, terrorism offences have been released on home detention curfew since 1997.

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (1 Apr 2008) has video

Edward Garnier: ...tribute to the speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman). The vast majority of the speeches have been contrary to the Government's position, and a feeling is emerging that terrorism will be broken and deterred or inhibited only with the co-operation of the minority to whom it is designed to appeal. To seek a battle over the number 42 as opposed to 90, as the...

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (1 Apr 2008) has video

Edward Garnier: The hon. Gentleman is right to point out that there is a huge difference between the facts and the history of Northern Ireland and the facts and the history of the fundamentalist Islamic terrorism that we have to deal with today. But the general point is a good one, and I do not resile from it and nor should anyone else. In the few minutes remaining of my speech, I shall concentrate on...

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (1 Apr 2008) has video

Edward Garnier: The Home Secretary says that the DPP is a public servant, but to some extent we are all public servants. We need to take advice and listen carefully to those who know the coal face of counter-terrorism. Did the Home Secretary hear the remarks of Lord Dear on the radio this morning? He said that the 42-day pre-charge extension would be counter-productive and would fuel extremism rather than,...

Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No.2): Lisbon Treaty (No.1) — (1st Allotted Day) (29 Jan 2008) has video

Edward Garnier: ...good for us. What the Government believe is good for the public is the wholesale transfer of the third pillar aspects of home affairs and justice into pillar one. Issues such as drug trafficking, terrorism and serious and organised crime, and Europol and Eurojust, which are currently subject to the third pillar so that decisions on them require unanimity among member states, will be elided...

Orders of the Day: Serious Crime Bill [Lords] (12 Jun 2007)

Edward Garnier: ...—if different in character—with the way in which my hon. and learned Friend advanced his case. Having listened to the nearly hour-long speech from the Minister for Security, Counter Terrorism and Police, who introduced the Bill, I do not think that even two sentences of what my hon. and learned Friend said had ever occurred to the Minister before he got to his feet. That is not...

Orders of the Day: Serious Crime Bill [Lords] (12 Jun 2007)

Edward Garnier: ...relating to intellectual property—the hon. Member for Taunton had some fun with those—and the environment. It seems to me at least possible that the Minister for Security, Counter Terrorism and Police, who introduced the Bill, has not read the underlying legislation to which the schedule refers. The clue is that the Minister tends to resort to abuse rather than argument when...

Orders of the Day: Serious Crime Bill [Lords] (12 Jun 2007)

Edward Garnier: ...would be a serious offence, but legislation already exists to control the use of explosives. Why does schedule 1 make no mention of homicide, serious assault such as grievous bodily harm, or terrorism offences? Will the Bill deal with such matters in another way?