Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords]

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 7:18 pm on 17 January 2005.

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Photo of Edward Garnier Edward Garnier Conservative, Harborough 7:18, 17 January 2005

I am sure that those examples are interesting. Such cases are bad and ought not to have happened. We can all agree about that, but clearly such cases are not in the majority, bad as they are individually. I am concerned about the future. By and large, we agree that the judicial appointments commission is a good thing, although we need to worry about the detail. Can the hon. and learned Lady move away from the points that she was making about previous mistakes or bad policies and urge us to support the Bill in relation to the question of the Lord Chancellor or the supreme court? I fully sympathise with her concerns, but they will not help us to be persuaded about the overall merits of the Bill.