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Civil Liberties: Electronic Surveillance — Debate (23 Apr 2009)

Lord Soley: ...to in the House of Commons, I would have agreed with many of the things that the noble and gallant Lord said; in fact I would have agreed with all of them, perhaps with one caveat on the nature of terrorism. It is right that in the past 50 or 60 years terrorism has not been a threat to the state, but given the nature of some modern weapons, the greater knowledge about how to create,...

Constitution: Rights and Responsibilities — Statement (23 Mar 2009)

Lord Soley: ...homework so he got his strike in first. Both these parties have—if I may use an inelegant legal term—form. Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats supported the Prevention of Terrorism Act with its internal exile, and the Conservatives supported a ban on Gerry Adams being broadcast on the BBC. They also supported certain aspects of locking people up without trial in...

Counter-Terrorism Bill (14 Oct 2008)

Lord Soley: My Lords, I commend my noble friend on the way he is handling this, not least because I was one of the people who for a number of years opposed very strongly the old Prevention of Terrorism Act, which was far harsher than the Bill as it enabled politicians to exclude a person from one part of the UK to another without judicial oversight as well as many other things that are not allowed under...

Counter-Terrorism Bill (8 Jul 2008)

Lord Soley: ...that you were charging a person with a lower offence but that you did not want that person to get bail because you envisaged a much more serious offence. I do not know whether that was done with terrorism cases, but I do know—and I speak as an ex-probation officer—that it frequently happened for common offences. Fortunately, thanks to people like me, people in the other House...

Liberal Intervention (15 Nov 2007)

Lord Soley: ...that is clearly immoral and wrong but the law does not fit that. After that, incidentally, the Royal Navy came up with an interesting concept that has interesting parallels with the concept of terrorism. It said, "Right, we are going to call slavery piracy, because everyone knows that that is wrong and that will enable us to intervene and deal with ships of other nations on the high seas"....

Foreign Policy (21 Jun 2007)

Lord Soley: ...the emerging great powers: India, China and Brazil. That is absolutely right, but in the short term, the issue is the proliferation of unstable, failed and despotic states and of armed groups—terror groups. That is the problem. Some people have said that the problem has come about or got worse because of Iraq. The latter may well be true, but ignores the fundamental fact that those...

Terrorism Bill (21 Nov 2005)

Lord Soley: ..., but I shall leave it to the Minister as I do not have an answer to those questions. For many years I have not been alone in struggling with the difficult question of how to confront and defeat terrorism, while at the same time defend our civil liberties and protect the rights of minorities who get caught in the net and become easy recruits for terrorism, wherever it may be. I am not...

Terrorism Bill (21 Nov 2005)

Lord Soley: ...is appalling. But there may be a way forward here in the longer term—not in the Bill, I accept—by recognising that we have adopted part of the continental system for this narrow area of terrorism and adapted it to our needs. I am not sure that, in the long run, it would not be better if we tried to reach a balance and recognise that we are doing that and that we do so only for...

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Power to Make Control Orders (9 Mar 2005)

Mr Clive Soley: ...Hykeham (Mr. Hogg). When the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham was a Home Office Minister, he used to lecture me on why I should not try to criticise the prevention of terrorism Act. At that time, we were excluding people within the UK and picking up several thousand people a year, of whom we charged less than 1 per cent. with terrorist offences. Before that, the...

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Power to Make Control Orders (9 Mar 2005)

Mr Clive Soley: The right hon. Gentleman speaks of seven months. If he has in mind other approaches, including another Act, for example, for acts preparatory to terrorism, quite a lot of background work will be needed between the two Houses. Surely he must accept that renewing the legislation every year would give the Government the flexibility over the next 12 months to do that? It would be a far better...

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Power to Make Control Orders (9 Mar 2005)

Mr Clive Soley: ...just said. I certainly think that is better than a sunset clause. It is important that we recognise that for the past 20 or 30 years, none of us has been happy with the way we have legislated on terrorism. The measure we are discussing today is not as bad as some aspects of the old prevention of terrorism Acts and it is certainly not as bad as the internment Acts. I would very much welcome...

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Power to make control orders (28 Feb 2005)

Mr Clive Soley: I hope not to detain the Committee for long. Having been involved in debates on the prevention of terrorism for about 25 years, I feel that I have built up some knowledge of the subject. One of the few encouraging aspects of the present situation is that we seem to be much more concerned about the legislation than we were before, when the Liberals and the Conservatives would often vote...

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Power to make control orders (28 Feb 2005)

Mr Clive Soley: I agree very much with the hon. Gentleman; I would not want the French system here. However, on the narrow issue of terrorism, I wonder whether we could consider something that might work here with rather more controls than they have in France. Let us remember that they do it rather better elsewhere in Europe. Otherwise we will end up with a system of judges simply deciding the process, and...

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Power to make control orders (28 Feb 2005)

Mr Clive Soley: ...welcome the hon. Gentleman's comments on this—we should perhaps move towards what we seem to be moving towards anyway. I refer to an inquisitorial system of justice for the narrow area of terrorism. We are bringing judges into the process, and the reason why this problem is not faced in Europe is that people are locked up there while judges decide. That may be what we are deciding now.

Prevention of Terrorism (22 Feb 2005)

Mr Clive Soley: ...strict controls. However, he seems to be arguing the importance of the Executive role as justification for not letting a judge take the decision. May I remind him that, under the old prevention of terrorism Acts, the exclusion orders, which in many respects were not dissimilar to what we are doing here, were profoundly unsatisfactory? If he can find a way of putting the matter before a...

Business of the House (9 Dec 2004)

Mr Clive Soley: ...a guarantee that there will be a major debate on this matter in the House, because it touches on issues that affect us all, including the future of the United Nations, reform of the United Nations, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and failing states. This matter is too important for us to allow it to slip off the agenda.

Social Security and Pensions (24 Feb 2004)

Mr Clive Soley: ...whole, but there are some timid people among them. However, the fear of the means test is no longer the main issue. It has a terrible reputation from the period of mass unemployment in the 1930s, but it no longer holds the same terrors. I do not claim that it is easy or has no problems associated with it, because it has, but I have noticed that pensioners who are entitled to council tax...

British Detainees (Guantanamo Bay) (24 Feb 2004)

Mr Clive Soley: Extreme forms of terrorism pose a serious and complex problem to democratic societies. To impress on the United States the dangers of its Guantanamo Bay policy, will my right hon. Friend remind that country that, in the 1970s, as a good friend of this country, it warned us of the dangers of internment in Northern Ireland? It was right to warn us then and we are right to warn it now.

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Clive Soley: ...never put into effect. That ceasefire was signed with the UN, not the United States, and he breached it time and again with genocide, torture, human rights abuses, weapons of mass destruction and terrorism—the lot—and we did nothing, because of which many people have died and the misery continues.

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Clive Soley: ...east, particularly of the Palestine-Israel situation, we also have to deal with Saddam Hussein; the two are linked in that sense. If the world wants to move forward and face up to the problems of terrorism, we must also deal with states that produce weapons of mass destruction. Instead of just reading Dr. Blix's abbreviated report to the Security Council, hon. Members should go to the...