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Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill - Second Reading (21 Apr 2023)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...The inspectors found that this was an excellent initiative, “the best of its kind that we have seen recently”. It was yielding promising early outcomes for prisoners nearing release, including job offers and improved outcomes for accommodation on release. In the hub, there are a range of resettlement services: a job centre, work coaches and housing support. Prisoners are supported in...

Human Rights Act 1998 - Motion to Take Note (14 Jul 2022)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...to comply with a positive obligation.” Post-commencement? It commenced in 1953. Last October, the Lord Chancellor Mr Raab told the Telegraph on his appointment: “I don't think it’s the job of the European Court in Strasburg to be dictating things … whether it's the NHS, whether it’s our welfare provision, or whether it’s our police forces … We want the Supreme Court to have a...

Parole System: Public Protection - Statement ( 5 Apr 2022)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ..., while 11,437 remained in prison for the protection of the public. Who made these decisions? The Parole Board consists of over 300 members: 169 independent members from all backgrounds, all jobs and all parts of the country; 61 judicial members such as Crown Court judges or retired judges with a lifetime experience of the criminal justice system; and 68 psychologist members and 35...

Judicial Review and Courts Bill - Second Reading ( 7 Feb 2022)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...the lawfulness of government action and decision-making, they muscle in to usurp the discretion of that other essential limb of a liberal democracy, the judiciary. It refuses to let judges do their job. It must be resisted.

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - Committee (10th Day): Amendment 268 (22 Nov 2021)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...The noble and learned Lord’s amendment sets out the criteria which the judge “must” take into account, none of which is objectionable, save that it amounts to teaching the judge how to do his job. Perhaps it is useful to inform the public of the factors which a judge considering an application must consider, but I am sure a judge would consider those factors anyway at the present...

Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill - Commons Reasons and Amendments: Motions C and D (26 Apr 2021)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ..., whether foreign nationals, civilian victims or members of the Armed Forces, should be removed from the Bill and that the tried and trusted system that we have—allowing judges to do their job in the particular circumstances of the case—should continue. The Government persist in removing the judges’ discretion, even in the narrow class of service personnel on overseas operations. We...

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Welsh Forms) Order 2021 - Motion to Approve ( 4 Mar 2021)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...this instrument. It has to be emphasised that the use of Welsh in government forms strengthens confidence in the general use of the language. The Welsh Language Advisory Group is doing a very good job and the use of Welsh is widening. I am currently on an excellent course in improving my language skills with students not just from the locality but from Swansea to Devizes, Manchester and...

Ynys Môn: Economy - Question ( 2 Mar 2021)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...in the Anglesey area. Will the Government consider the feasibility of tidal power in the Menai Strait between Liverpool Bay and Caernarfon Bay, a large infrastructure project that would provide jobs for Anglesey and beyond?

Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 4 (26 Jan 2021)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: .... So we get an arbitrary 14-year minimum sentence and an arbitrary seven years on licence. What is the evidence that this is the correct balance? Who said that? Why cannot a judge be left to do his job? It seems to me that the only purpose of a minimum sentence is to make a single day’s headlines to the effect that the Government are being tough on crime, and specifically on terrorism....

Agriculture Bill - Committee (5th Day): Amendment 155 (21 Jul 2020)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...the last election, when the Government derived significant support from the crumbling “red wall” urban areas, whose interests they now have to consider. The further centralising of services and jobs in large conurbations may drive further depopulation from the countryside. It may even destroy the Conservative Party’s traditional rural base of support. Will the Government make a...

Agriculture Bill - Committee (3rd Day): Amendment 35 (14 Jul 2020)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...wasted. The quality of the soil at the site is completely immaterial. The system could be hydroponic or it could use a suitable growing medium. The Wrexham project proposes the creation of 150 new jobs. The Home Secretary should surely support it, since with 2,000 prisoners doing nothing very much next door there will be no need for the east European agricultural workers who she does not...

Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL] (Law Commission Bill) - Second Reading (11 Feb 2020)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ..., unlike a much more experienced bench of magistrates, whose powers of sentencing are limited to two years’ imprisonment, the officers on the panel, save for the president, may well be new to the job. For many, perhaps the majority, this will be the first and last time they are called upon to sit in judgment. Surely it would be more sensible to leave sentencing as the responsibility of...

Brexit: Stability of the Union - Motion to Take Note (17 Jan 2019)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...funds underpinned the economies of areas in decline, and nowhere has benefited more than Wales. European structural funds have invested more than £4 billion in supporting many thousands of jobs and creating new enterprises. Europe helped to stabilise the union at a time of profound economic and social change. Devolution has played an important part in creating stability. In Wales we...

Operation Conifer - Motion to Regret (11 Dec 2018)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...of a former senior officer who in August 1992 as a young detective constable had been involved in an undercover operation into the existence of a brothel at an address in Salisbury. It was his job to go to the brothel to demonstrate that a Ms Myra Ling Ling Forde was willing to offer sex for sale. Ms Forde was charged with keeping a brothel and when her case was listed to be heard at...

Brexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration - Motion to Take Note (2nd Day) ( 6 Dec 2018)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...that the single customs territory is no longer necessary. The European Union would naturally turn to Ireland and ask, “Is this okay with you?” Ireland might say, “No, it doesn’t do the job it’s hyped up to do. All this new technology is untested; we don’t know if it will work. You’ll risk starting up the Troubles again”, so there is a dispute. Both sides are acting in good...

Brexit: Dispute Resolution and Enforcement (European Union Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note (17 Oct 2018)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ..., which makes no distinction between judges of one nationality and another. … The tradition was that you were not there to plug the point of view of your national Government. That was not your job. Your job was to try to decide the law in the light of the general European interest”. That, indeed, is the way in which the Court of Justice has operated: it is not a court of competing...

Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018 - Motion to Approve (17 May 2018)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...highly motivated teaching profession and strengthens the delivery of a high quality education system”. With the success of her approach to student finance, I am sure that she will do a brilliant job on this. She said in her statement in December: “I have been clear … that being tied to the England system”— of teachers’ pay— “is no longer appropriate, relevant or to the...

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Committee (6th Day) (12 Mar 2018)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...person which is a body and £50 million in relation to an individual”. In my career I can remember a High Court judge imposing a £1 million fine on my client—I did not do a very good job—for polluting the Mersey, which was thought to be the largest fine that had ever been imposed. However, here, by tertiary legislation, the Bar Standards Board has the power to administer a fine of...

Farmer Review - Question for Short Debate (11 Oct 2017)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: .... But the prison in Wrexham is two and a half miles from the station. It is on an industrial estate, which I know well because I used to dig up the railway sleepers there as an early venture into jobs—learning about tea breaks and things like that. It is catering to people from a long way away. I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Masham of Ilton, that it would be sensible to provide...

Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 - Motion to Regret (13 Sep 2017)

Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...vary the cost cap, up or down, and that introduces uncertainty, which must affect the minds of the people in communities who wish to challenge a decision of an authority or of government. It is the job of lawyers such as myself to advise people never to go to court if they can possibly help it, but who would want to go to court with the threat that the cost cap which you can judge and...


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