Former MP for Middlesbrough West
The Solicitor-General (Sir Jocelyn Simon) indicated dissent.
I shook my head because that is the relevant date under the Order. It is the relevant date, because that was the date of nationalisation.
This House is traditionally and rightly solicitous of the acquired rights of any citizen. It is also equally anxious that other people should not be unjustly prejudiced in the claims which they are enabled to put forward with the approbation of this House. From the debate it is clear that there are two issues. One has been principally canvassed, but the other has also been raised. The first...
I hope that my hon. and learned Friend will excuse me, because I have very little time.
That is true. As I said, the first point is that the property was nationalised before the date of his naturalisation, and of course it is on that that his principal costs have been incurred—the costs of discovering what the position was in Poland. But the provisional adjudication of the tribunal on this was that the date of nationalisation was a year before he was naturalised.
The review may say that it is not true, but as far as I know it is not now seriously contended that his property was nationalised after the date. There is a definition in the agreement as to what is the relevant date. Secondly, he put forward an argument that he was a British subject not only by virtue of the 1705 Act but also by virtue of his certificate of naturalisation. On 9th February...
I am giving my hon. Friend and the House some facts. He should not be excited merely because I present him with some facts. The point about the review is that there is no appeal; it is final. That is the answer to the hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe). It is not a question of interfering with a legal process or a legal remedy. If the review upholds this claim, there is an immediate...
I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. The background to the Amendment is this. In the debate in this House on what is now Clause 28, which gives fire authorities certain rights of inspection in connection with an application by a club for a registration certificate, the question was raised, I think by both the right hon. and learned Member for...
