Results 1–20 of 97 for defence speaker:Andrew Slaughter

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Defence (27 Feb 2024)

Andrew Slaughter: To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2024 to Question 13286 on Defence, if he will publish a list of the non-NATO countries with which the UK has (a) bilateral and (b) multilateral (i) agreements and (ii) arrangements to consult in the event of attack.

Situation in the Red Sea (24 Jan 2024)

Andrew Slaughter: ..., has a duty to uphold them. We have heard about the economic consequences. The disruption caused by what is happening in the Red sea affects peace not only there but throughout the region. As the Defence Secretary and the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee said, there are complex and historical issues that will need political solutions in due course. These are long-standing disputes...

Situation in the Red Sea (24 Jan 2024)

Andrew Slaughter: I should have taken your advice, Mr Deputy Speaker, rather than the advice of the shadow Defence Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Wentworth and Dearne (John Healey), at the beginning of the debate. You interrupt me at an appropriate point, because I am concluding my remarks. There is strong support from all sides, but we need to go further. Britain’s historical responsibility...

Human Rights Protections: Palestinians (20 Apr 2023)

Andrew Slaughter: ...routinely used as cover for Israeli troops engaged in military operations, but medical staff are prevented from reaching wounded people. We have heard about the effect on children. I was briefed by Defence for Children International, which has been in the UK this week. It is one of six organisations proscribed—on no evidence—as a terrorist organisation, along with Al-Haq and other...

Home Secretary: Resignation and Reappointment (26 Oct 2022)

Andrew Slaughter: The Minister’s defence of the Home Secretary reminds me of the old saying: “The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.” The Prime Minister said a few moments ago that the right hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Gavin Williamson) had been reappointed to the Cabinet, despite his leaking confidential data. Of course, that was four years ago, and now we...

Written Answers — Attorney General: Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation ( 8 Sep 2022)

Andrew Slaughter: To ask the Attorney General, how much the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) spent on the (a) prosecution trials brought against ENRC and (b) SFO defence against ENRC counter claims lawsuit.

Standards in Public Life ( 5 Jul 2022)

Andrew Slaughter: The Minister has stated that the Prime Minister’s current defence in this matter is, “I was told but I forgot.” The Minister mentioned his time in practice. If a client had produced that defence, what advice would he have given him, and would he have put him in the witness box?

Opposition Day: Countering Russian Aggression and Tackling Illicit Finance (23 Feb 2022)

Andrew Slaughter: ...are easily concealed. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but the Serious Fraud Office suffers from its budget being a fraction of what the company it is prosecuting has to spend on lawyers and defence. But it is also true that the head of the Serious Fraud Office is under investigation for the conduct of the Ziad Akle case. The accusation is that the SFO went after the minnows and let...

Judicial Review and Courts Bill: New Clause 4 - Publicly funded legal representation for bereaved people at inquests (25 Jan 2022)

Andrew Slaughter: ...that the statutory instrument was invalid, because the measure requires a judge to act as if it were valid. The amendment seeks to protect a person’s right to use the court’s decision as a defence in criminal proceedings. Amendment 27 clarifies any factors that the court considers are a matter for its own judgment. The current use of “must” instead of “may” directs the...

Attorney General: Criminal Justice System: Disclosure between Parties ( 6 Jan 2022)

Andrew Slaughter: ...month the Court of Appeal ruled the conviction of Ziad Akle, prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office, unsafe because there was a material failure of disclosure that significantly handicapped the defence. The court described this as a serious failure by the SFO to comply with its duty and said it was particularly regrettable given that some of the documents withheld had a clear potential to...

Public Bill Committee: Judicial Review and Courts Bill: Clause 2 - Exclusion of review of Upper Tribunal’s permission-to-appeal decisions ( 9 Nov 2021)

Andrew Slaughter: ...works will assist with the Crown court backlog of 60,000 cases. The idea that the solution is to get rid of Cart judicial review rather than having sufficient Crown Prosecution Service prosecutors, defence counsel and recorders or, indeed, a sufficient number of courts is a fantasy. Can we not set that aside?

Public Bill Committee: Judicial Review and Courts Bill: Clause 2 - Exclusion of review of Upper Tribunal’s permission-to-appeal decisions ( 4 Nov 2021)

Andrew Slaughter: ...fairness” and, as such, its decision could not stand. The errors included going beyond the Government’s case and making unsupported findings against her without giving her a chance to defence herself, and departing from country guidance without good reason. On the evidence, she was clearly a victim of trafficking, and the High Court ruled that she should be treated as such. In fact, it...

Public Bill Committee: Judicial Review and Courts Bill: Clause 1 - Quashing orders ( 4 Nov 2021)

Andrew Slaughter: ...measure in other proceedings. That raises the possibility of people being charged with a criminal offence under unlawfully made delegated legislation, for example, but not being able to raise as a defence the fact that the legislation was subsequently found to be unlawful. As IRAL recognised, that position would leave the law in a “radically defective state”. A further subsection...

Public Bill Committee: Judicial Review and Courts Bill: Clause 1 - Quashing orders ( 4 Nov 2021)

Andrew Slaughter: ...the person to rely on its unlawfulness in other proceedings. In other words, a person could be arrested under a regulation ruled unlawful by a court, but they would not be able to use that in their defence. The IRAL report quotes Professor David Feldman, whom we heard from, on the “intuitive revulsion” felt against that state of affairs, and concludes: “We readily acknowledge that...

Judicial Review and Courts Bill (26 Oct 2021)

Andrew Slaughter: ...said it was—and the reason why there is a special reason for retaining such reviews. Those points have been made but they are, with respect, not good points, because Cart reviews are a last-gasp defence for some of the most vulnerable people in the most desperate situations. The Bill’s impact assessment concedes that, saying: “The majority of Cart cases relate to Immigration and...

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Iraq: Rendition (11 Jan 2021)

Andrew Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of whether the Government was involved in acts of rendition in Iraq from 2003 to 2009.

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Iraq: Detainees (11 Jan 2021)

Andrew Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether (a) the five techniques and (b) harshing were employed during interrogations in Iraq between 2003 and 2009.

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Iraq: Detainees (11 Jan 2021)

Andrew Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the December 2020 International Criminal Court report entitled Situation in Iraq/UK, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the reported flawed guidance in interrogation procedures used in Iraq between 2003 and 2009.

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Iraq: Detainees (11 Jan 2021)

Andrew Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the December 2020 International Criminal Court report entitled Situation in Iraq/UK, whether he plans to compensate in accordance with international law victims of torture perpetrated by British forces during detention and interrogation in Iraq between 2003 and 2009.

Release Under Investigation ( 5 Feb 2020)

Andrew Slaughter: ..., but for nothing in between. That means nothing for those important pre-charge stages—or at least, it will only be paid much later in the day. They are important stages of investigation, and the defence has a role here as well in querying whether evidence is being gathered, for example. If there is to be a period of years, as we have heard in serious cases, where no progress is made in...


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