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Interception of Communications (Admissibility of Evidence) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am happy to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lyell, because I am very sympathetic to many of the arguments he has put forward. Perhaps I may say at the outset that I am immensely grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, for having given the House the opportunity to consider this matter. I hope that my personal and much respected friend, my noble friend Lady Ramsay, will forgive me if I say that I envy her the absolute and unqualified certainty of her conviction in these matters.