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Autumn Statement 2023 - Motion to Take Note (29 Nov 2023)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...a serious decrease in the number of sitting days, and a lack of barristers, both to prosecute and defend. The diminution in criminal legal aid by 41% since 2010—the cause of the barristers’ strike—has destroyed the attractiveness of the criminal Bar as a career. So I repeat my call for incentives to aid recruitment; if the Government can fund £26,000 bursaries for young teachers to...

Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill - Committee (2nd Day): Amendment 22 (11 Mar 2021)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...I spoke at length on Tuesday and will not repeat, the rule is to apply not only in the courts of England and Wales, but in Scotland and in Northern Ireland. Remember that the judge has power to strike out vexatious claims and that we are talking about claims against the Ministry of Defence, not the individual serviceman, who will never be called upon, whatever he has done, to pay the...

Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 11 (26 Jan 2021)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...hardened criminals. It is even more important not to turn them into hardened terrorists. “What works?” asked the noble and learned Lord, Lord Stewart of Dirleton—the Scottish wing of the strike force. A large incentive when persuading offenders to amend their ways is the fact that they have their chance, before the Parole Board, to have release if it is appropriate and safe. The...

Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill - Committee (2nd Day): Amendment 16 ( 1 Dec 2020)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...to follow their own course, perhaps—as my noble friend Lord Paddick suggested—corruptly or, through an excess of zeal, to chase their own hobbyhorse or their own dislike, for example, of striking miners or protestors against road or rail development, squatting up in trees. Indeed, they might dislike members of the Green Party, as the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, has reminded us. An...

United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Committee (2nd Day): Amendment 12 (28 Oct 2020)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...justices would become very much under the spotlight, as we have seen in Washington this week. The Government have taken advantage of the timidity of this House in exercising its undoubted power to strike down statutory instruments. We have now reached the situation where the Government have the gall to seek powers to act unlawfully and contrary to the rule of law, confident that we will...

Armed Forces Act (Continuation) Order 2019 - Motion to Approve (20 Feb 2019)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...deploying military forces to deal with possible civil unrest arising from Brexit, that the deployment by Winston Churchill as Home Secretary of troops to Tonypandy, who never got involved in that strike, is so built into people’s memories that it was resurrected only a week ago?

Energy Policy - Statement (25 Jun 2018)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: I thought the strike price was 8.9p per kilowatt hour, as opposed to Hinkley’s 9.3p or 9.4p per kilowatt hour. Am I wrong in that? That is what my study of the proposals said. The Minister refers to the production of energy as being intermittent. As I understood the scheme, the tide coming in moved the turbines in one direction, so there was electricity generated and, as the lagoon emptied,...

Armed Forces Bill - Report (27 Apr 2016)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...as retired military people. I have never come across such a public demonstration against the result of a trial, even in very controversial cases. In Committee, I cited the case during the miners’ strike involving the murder of a taxi driver with a concrete block, in which I prosecuted. There was no public demonstration after that; but there seems to be a public demonstration after every...

Armed Forces Bill: Second Reading (11 Feb 2016)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...nor even the press or public, attack a verdict of acquittal by a jury in a Crown Court in such terms. This did not even happen, for example, in the case I prosecuted in Cardiff during the miners’ strike, when two miners were convicted of the murder of a taxi driver using a concrete block. The conviction of the 17 year-old went to the House of Lords Judicial Committee, where it was...

Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill — Second Reading (13 Jan 2015)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...and other western countries—Canada, France, Australia and others—are now engaged in an asymmetric war in which we attack the enemy by the most technologically advanced means of drones and air strikes. Against them, the forces of terror have no defence. But the price we pay for warfare directed from secure and remote bunkers in our homelands is that we significantly increase the risk of...

Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons — Motion to Take Note (29 Aug 2013)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ..., had taken leave of his senses and employed them in the shocking way that we have heard. If that is so, what is our response to be? Is it without further investigation simply to bomb and shell or strike at targets in Syria with the inevitable consequence that innocent civilians would be killed? I have heard Ministers, the Prime Minister and others say that it is all a question of...

Justice and Security Bill [HL] — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) (17 Jul 2012)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: This is a very useful dialogue. I hope other noble Lords are listening. Is it not the case that strike-out applications, for example, and all sorts of issues are tried on the pleadings? Donoghue and Stevenson was tried on the pleadings. Major cases are tried on the pleadings because, unlike criminal procedures where the defence statements are laughable, in civil proceedings the case must be...

Justice and Security Bill [HL] — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) (17 Jul 2012)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...a CMP should be allowed". This totally ignores the fact that, in ordinary civil litigation, preliminary issues are the province of a Master of the Queen's Bench, or a registrar. He deals with strike-out applications, case management, and in particular, with disclosure under Part 31 of the rules of the Supreme Court. Applications seeking further disclosure or contesting claims for...

Justice and Security Bill [HL]: Committee (2nd Day) (Continued) (11 Jul 2012)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...for wrongful arrest. Those acting for the police go to see the judge in secret and say, "We had a tip-off from the security services. We cannot tell the claimant in this particular case. You must strike his claim out or find in our favour"-or whatever. Is his claim then to be defeated? I suggest that that would be quite contrary to the basis of habeas corpus and the protection of freedom...

European Convention on Human Rights — Debate (19 May 2011)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...constitution or, if they are, they are not put into effect. It is a stark contrast with what happened in Hong Kong. The Bill of Rights in Hong Kong in its original form gave the courts the power to strike down any law that was incompatible with those rights. The Privy Council here in the case of Lee Kwong-kut in 1993, in which I was involved, tested that power in relation to a criminal...

Defamation Bill [HL]: Second Reading ( 9 Jul 2010)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...-ranging the Bill should be in the absence of a complete overhaul of the law, but we would not be here if it were not for my noble friend zeroing in on the principles which, to cite him, seek to strike a fair balance between reputation and public information on matters of public interest. It is a difficult balance to strike. Dr Dario Milo, an outstanding South African lawyer and academic,...

Bribery Bill [HL]: Third Reading ( 8 Feb 2010)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...it is within the company's own knowledge as to what adequate procedures it has and what it can advance. My criticism of Clause 13 as it now stands, and the reason why I opposed it and wish to strike it out, was that a person who is in the security services or the Armed Forces cannot possibly have access to the evidence which would be required for him to support such a defence. He would...

Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill ( 7 May 2008)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...industrial relations has always been difficult. Your Lordships will recall that at the beginning of the previous century a Liberal Government freed up the trade union movement and permitted it to strike. I always thought that the Labour Party supported such movements. Here the Government put restrictions on the police and Prison Service. We do not say that those restrictions are...

Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (23 Apr 2008)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...in the debate on the previous amendment, I am in the unusual position of having my criticisms accepted in a government amendment, which vastly improves the clause. Even so, I am seeking to strike it out completely, for all the reasons that I have given. I beg to move.

Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (10 Mar 2008)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...'s amendment that Section 127 should not be brought into effect unless there was an affirmative resolution of both Houses? That seems to be a fair way of dealing with the matter. I appreciate that strike action in a prison is very dangerous, but I can confirm the assertion made by the noble Lord, Lord Graham, that prison officers collectively remained in the vicinity of the prisons at the...


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