Results 1-20 of 26 for terrorism speaker:Vera Baird

Written Answers — Solicitor-General: Corruption (21 Jul 2009)

Vera Baird: The register of referrals for overseas corruption was maintained by the National Criminal Intelligence Service from 14 February 2002 after sections 108 and 109 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (2001) came into effect. On 1 August 2005, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) took over responsibility for maintaining the register. The SFO had 202 cases recorded on the register of...

Written Ministerial Statements — Solicitor-General: Anthony Leon Peart (20 Jan 2009)

Vera Baird: On 22 November 2007 the then Minister for Security, Counter Terrorism Crime and Policing, the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, and I invited HM Chief Inspector of the CPS, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, HM Chief Inspector of Courts Administration and HM Chief Inspector of Prisons jointly to undertake a review into the circumstances which led to Anthony Leon Peart being at liberty...

Written Answers — Solicitor-General: Anti-Semitism (20 Oct 2008)

Vera Baird: ...crime action plan. The plan sets out how the CPS will take the following action: Provide prosecutors with better guidance to help them identify and refer appropriate cases to the CPS' counter-terrorism division; Ensure a proactive approach when working with the police so that the strongest possible cases are built; Improve the level of support provided to victims of anti-Semitic crime, and...

Written Answers — Solicitor-General: Powers of Entry (13 Oct 2008)

Vera Baird: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing on 7 October 2008, Official Report, column 577W.

Written Ministerial Statements — Solicitor-General: Anthony Leon Peart (28 Apr 2008)

Vera Baird: On 22 November, my right hon. Friend the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Garstang (Maria Eagle) and I invited HM chief inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service, HM chief inspector of constabulary, HM chief inspector of courts administration and HM chief...

Pensions: Human Rights (19 Feb 2007)

Vera Baird: ...are about providing a practical framework to protect all our freedoms. If our freedoms require protection, and the freedom of others must be suspended to stop crime, resist oppression or prevent terrorism, the Human Rights Act will allow that balance to be struck, and that makes sense to us all. Of course, there are bound to be cases on the edge, grey areas where there is scope for...

Pensions: Human Rights (19 Feb 2007)

Vera Baird: ...is not in that form, but is of a kind that might convince an independent scrutineer of the terrorist legislation that it would be justifiable to use the evidence to detain somebody. Under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, which was the Government's first attempt to get the balance right in near-impossible situations of that kind, the evidence that was produced did satisfy...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: Long Trials (17 Jul 2006)

Vera Baird: ...which aims to bring greater scrutiny to the way that high cost cases are managed. The judiciary have also issued a number of protocols on the management of heavy fraud and other complex cases, terrorism cases and of the disclosure process, which are intended to ensure that judges actively case manage to minimise the length of trials, and that prosecution and defence teams comply with...

Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read. (21 Nov 2005)

Vera Baird: ...case reaching a remote court in Strasbourg. The Government accepted that they should surround themselves with those value-based guidelines in a strong form while they struggled—with terrorism today and who knows what tomorrow. They wrestle now with their duty simultaneously to protect the article 2 right to life of their citizens, free from threat, and the article 5 rights of the...

Prevention of Terrorism Bill (10 Mar 2005)

Ms Vera Baird: ...on either side of this House, let me clearly set out my understanding of the position. The test in the Bill is very plain—are there reasonable grounds to suspect that the person is engaged in terrorism? The only way of assessing that is to look at the evidence and evaluate it. The judge must act as the gatekeeper for the Home Secretary in evaluating the evidence and concluding...

Prevention of Terrorism Bill (10 Mar 2005)

Ms Vera Baird: ...up a good deal of time. It is my clear view that hon. Members are misguided in concentrating on the burden of proof. The distinction between reasonable cause to suspect that someone is involved in terrorism and it's being more probable than not is not worth dying in a ditch for. Hon. Members should concentrate on firming up the admirable concessions that the Home Secretary made yesterday...

Prevention of Terrorism Bill (10 Mar 2005)

Ms Vera Baird: ...hon. and learned Friend knows well that if a judge is asked at the outset to consider whether there are reasonable grounds on which one can, as Home Secretary, suspect that a person is engaged in terrorism, the only possible way to reach a judgment is for the judge to look at the evidence and form a view. My hon. and learned Friend must not mislead the House about that.

Prevention of Terrorism Bill (10 Mar 2005)

Ms Vera Baird: ...used slightly badly, may I make it plain that a test whereby a judge of the High Court will consider, on all the evidence, whether there is reasonable cause to suspect that a person is engaged in terrorism is a satisfactory test, as far as I am concerned.

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

Ms Vera Baird: ...Members who have held out for the applications to be made to the judge first would not like the court to be sidestepped if every application were claimed to be urgent because it dealt with terrorism. I therefore rely heavily on my right hon. Friend's assurances that it will be only in rare cases that the court is sidestepped. Decisions will be made by judges, not the Home Secretary, who...

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

Ms Vera Baird: ...go into a particular area, must wear a tag and must be in their home after 10 pm. It is not the same as a control order, but it is in the same ball park. Anticipating that someone is engaged in terrorism, we will require him to follow orders imposed by a court to protect the public from risk. Turning briefly to the test, there is a major question to be asked—is the standard of proof...

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

Ms Vera Baird: ...;or any of them—can be imposed on an individual and no judge will look at the questions of fact as to whether there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that that individual is involved in terrorism at all, or at whether the restrictions are necessary to protect the public. Nobody will look at that. Colleagues may think that that is completely unacceptable and that the poor quality...

Business of the House (23 Feb 2005)

Ms Vera Baird: ...three years now and there is no real evidence that anybody has tried to prosecute such people. I accept readily what he said about 700 people being arrested in the past year under the prevention of terrorism Acts. Many have been charged, some have been convicted and, no doubt, some have trials pending. I know that that is true because quite a lot of my former colleagues are making a lot of...

Belmarsh Judgment (8 Feb 2005)

Ms Vera Baird: ...deport all the people, we will have to fall back on some restraint. The Tories will have to accept that that is realistic, as they were ready to accept the point in debate on part 4 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. They must keep an open mind on that, as the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden said they would. The issue of control orders—possibly falling...

Public Bill Committee: Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill: New Clause 12 - Interception of communications (No. 4) (18 Jan 2005)

Ms Vera Baird: ...Service. David Calvert-Smith, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, described the ban as ''a damaging restriction . . . weakening Britain's fight against organised crime, drug trafficking and terrorism'', and he said that the admission of phone taps would assist enormously. Major criminals obviously take a great deal of care not to use land lines, or even mobile phones registered...

Domestic Violence (29 Jun 2004)

Ms Vera Baird: ...hot-tempered provocation model into which one tries to squeeze them. The jury can see perfectly well that the woman is outside provocation and that she has not killed from anger at a wrong, but in terror and despair at yet another beating. So both defences usually fail, and thus do violent men who lose their self-control get away with murder and battered women get convicted of it. That is...