🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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Report from the International Agreements Committee: Treaty Scrutiny in Westminster: Addressing the Accountability Gap – Baroness Chapman of Darlington – Lord Goldsmith. Debate; 3:45 pm
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I thank the noble Baroness for recognising what has been done in this amendment, but it does not actually talk about extremism. It talks about “extreme criminal protest groups”. It may reassure her that the definition does not depend on the views being put forward being extremist but the actions and particular conduct—riot and so forth. I offer that to reassure her on the point she is...
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My Lords, I put my name to Amendment 371A, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Walney, and I will say a word about it, because it is a bit of an unusual event for me to do that. But I will take also this opportunity to say something about the amendment to that amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower. I have, in essence, two reasons for supporting the amendment from the noble...
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Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the UK and India – Lord Goldsmith. Debate; 4:15 pm
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My Lords, there seems to be a lot of confusion about this at the moment. I respectfully direct attention to what the Director of Public Prosecutions said in a letter to the joint committee last week. He pointed out that on 14 August there was a meeting between the counsel team, the CPS lawyer and the Deputy National Security Adviser in which questions were asked to see whether the...
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My Lords, the House has spoken about the underlying circumstances, but two points emerged from the debate which I very much appreciated. The first is how many topics we had to cover, including environmental area, security, law, history of the islands and so forth. We scrutinised that in a very short period—21 sitting days. I draw attention to the work done by the secretariat, and will name...
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Has the noble Lord considered the evidence given by Sir Christopher Greenwood, former judge at the International Court of Justice—in a sense, our former judge—who dealt with specifically that point, as well as other points that have been discussed?
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It did.
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the comments by Lord McNally on 1 February (Official Report, cols. 1658-62), how many witness care units are operative in England and Wales; whether they provide a full coverage across the country; and when was the most recent review of the effectiveness and coverage of those units.
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The director of the Serious Fraud Office independently took the decision to discontinue the investigation because of a real and serious threat to national security. I refer to the explanation that I gave to the House on 1 February 2007 ( Official Report,cols. 375-82).
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I can confirm that a copy of the judge's remarks at the end of the prosecution case and at the end of sentence in R v Payne and others (the Baha Musa case) are now in the Libraries of both Houses. The document entitled 1 QLR Internment procedure dated 9 July 2003 is being placed in the Library by the Ministry of Defence in answer to Question HL 3559.
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Morale within the SFO remains high—the SFO has a heavy and continuing caseload across a wide variety of investigations apart from those relating to overseas corruption. SFO staff members are professionals and well used to ongoing assessment of the various factors that may affect the continuance of an investigation. They recognise that not all investigations result in prosecution.
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(a) None. (b) To the best of my knowledge there have been three social occasions within the last three years at which both Lord Levy and I were present (along with many other people). On these occasions conversation between us was very brief and amounted to no more than an exchange of greetings.
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The circumstances in which it will normally be appropriate to consult the Law Officers are set out in paragraph 6.22 of the Ministerial Code.
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Appointment to the post of Director of Public Prosecutions depends on a consideration of all relevant factors concerning the qualification, experience, skills and personal characteristics of applicants and their overall suitability for this post. The person appointed must be a qualified lawyer with rights of audience, so any conviction resulting in the withdrawal of such rights would be a...
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Legal advice given by the law officers is subject to legal professional privilege (LPP) like any other legal advice. It is for the client to decide whether to waive LPP. In addition, law officers' advice is subject to the requirement that the fact and content of the advice must not be disclosed outside government without their authority. This requirement is contained in the Ministerial Code,...
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