Results 381–400 of 2751 for speaker:Mr Henry Strauss

Clause 3. — (Provisions as to Other Dealings with Property.) (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: What I thought I said was that we do not in any of these Clauses concede a right to damages. I was pointing out that the Amendment was giving something very like damages for conversion.

Clause 3. — (Provisions as to Other Dealings with Property.) (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I think we are agreed on the complexity of this matter. There are three possible cases of what may have happened. One is that the custodian has sold the property and in that case the true owner has a right to the proceeds. In the second case he may have transferred to an administrator of enemy property and in that case, under different legislation, there is a right against the...

Clause 3. — (Provisions as to Other Dealings with Property.) (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: The hon. and learned Gentleman put his point most clearly. The fairest thing for me to say to him is, without for one moment indicating that there is any case here which we can meet, because I want to tell the hon. and learned Member quite frankly that I do not think there is, as there has been a great deal of careful examination of this Bill, that he has made a perfectly fair request that my...

Clause 10. — (Property Allocated by Way of Reparation from Germany.) (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I am sorry that I cannot give the hon. and learned Gentleman exact information as to what is happening in other countries, but the general effect and purpose of this Clause is really a consequence of a reparations agreement. There was an agreement to set up the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency in the Paris Agreement of 1946 and this Clause is really consequential upon that Agreement; it simply...

Clause 12. — (Meaning of "german Enemy" and "german Enemy Interest.") (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: Whatever view may be held on the very complicated provisions which have been previously considered, I feel absolutely confident that it would be wrong for me to give the slightest hope on this definition Clause. These German-constituted or incorporated bodies of persons were enemies both at common law and under statute. The Committee should also remember the sort of circumstances under which...

Clause 12. — (Meaning of "german Enemy" and "german Enemy Interest.") (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I would only ask the hon. and learned Member to have a look at the London Patents Accord and he will find that what has been done here is in accordance with it.

Clause 12. — (Meaning of "german Enemy" and "german Enemy Interest.") (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: Of course, co-ownership always does involve difficulties. The hon. and learned Gentleman took a case where the enemy interest was extremely small, but of course the enemy interest might be very big. In any event, we have to consider other matters as well. As the hon. and learned Gentleman knows, it is not always very easy to tell without litigation whether one is infringing a patent. It is...

Clause 12. — (Meaning of "german Enemy" and "german Enemy Interest.") (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I will certainly consider that point. What we have in mind at the moment is present and, no doubt, future use in the public interest of some of the information rightly obtained by us during the war.

Clause 15. — (Interpretation.) (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I beg to move, in page 17, line 9, to leave out "include," and to insert: and to a Minister of the Crown include respectively. This and the following Amendment, in line 10, raise no point of principle. They are required simply to deal with the technical point that the term "Minister of the Crown," which is used in Clause 9 of the Bill, is not appropriate in so far as the Bill extends to...

Clause 15. — (Interpretation.) (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I beg to move, in page 17, line 20, at the end, to insert: and as including references to the provisions set out in the Second Schedule to the Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1953 (which by section two of that Act were substituted for those Regulations). This Amendment deals with a small technical point. Since the Bill was introduced the Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous...

New Clause. — (Income from Moneys Invested by Custodian.) (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time." This is technically a new Clause though it is printed in the Bill as Clause 4. This matter has been dealt with in Second Reading and on other occasions. The Clause seeks to make it entirely clear that the interest received by the Custodian, whether by discount on Treasury Bills or otherwise, belongs to the Crown

New Clause. — (Saving for Allies.) (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I am not sure whether this new Clause quite carries out the intention in the mind of the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, North-East (Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas), because it proposes the amendment of Section 1 (6) of the Distribution of German Enemy Property Act, 1949. That means that here we are concerned only with German enemy property and this is really another plea for looking behind the...

New Clause. — (Saving for Allies.) (20 Oct 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I am not sure whether the hon. and learned Gentleman was not inadvertently confusing two things. He so seldom confuses anything that I make that suggestion with the greatest hesitation, but I think he has slightly confused the discretionary use of this power in the Statute referred to in the Amendment with the quite distinct undertaking about ex gratia payments made by my right hon. Friend....

New Clause. — (Amendment of S. 2 of Merchandise Marks Act, 1887.) (24 Jul 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: As the hon. Gentleman says, the proposed new Clause does not alter the law as the Section has been construed by the courts. Nevertheless, it makes much clearer to the layman and to benches of magistrates what, on the face of the statute, the correct reading of the Section is. For that reason Her Majesty's Government are pleased to accept the proposed new Clause, and so advise the House.

Clause 1. — (Extension of Definitions of "trade Description" and "false Trade Description".) (24 Jul 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I think that the Committee upstairs and hon. Members when the matter has been before the House have all had one end in view, to get the most suitable words possible into the Bill because we have a common purpose in this matter. I can assure the House that, if my right hon. Friend and I thought that the words proposed in this Amendment were more suitable for common purpose than those already...

Clause 1. — (Extension of Definitions of "trade Description" and "false Trade Description".) (24 Jul 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: Wait a minute. I will yield to the hon. Gentleman in a minute if he wishes to interrupt, but I think he may wish first to hear what I have to say. If that were a single phrase, I could not attach any meaning to it, but when I heard the hon. Member opening the debate, I thought he meant to put a comma after "quality", another comma after "grade" and thus to make three things—quality, grade,...

Clause 1. — (Extension of Definitions of "trade Description" and "false Trade Description".) (24 Jul 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I am not dealing with draftsmanship.

Clause 1. — (Extension of Definitions of "trade Description" and "false Trade Description".) (24 Jul 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman interrupted me so prematurely. I definitely want to deal with the merits, but first I want to discover the meaning of what is proposed. After his speech I assumed that he wished to put a comma after "quality" and a comma after "grade" and to have three things. Why I doubt whether that was his meaning is because he mentioned, as did other hon. Members, the...

Clause 1. — (Extension of Definitions of "trade Description" and "false Trade Description".) (24 Jul 1953)

Mr Henry Strauss: With the leave of the House, I had meant to deal with the hon. Gentleman's remarks on this point. I would rather not, without notice, comment on the practice or the legislation of another country, but, in my view, the work that the British Standards Institution is carrying out in this country with the good will of all will make the practice here at least as good as that in any other country.


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