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Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill [HL]

My Lords, I intervene on this part of the Bill with some trepidation, because I have not followed it with the care with which I have followed the earlier parts. I listened with considerable attention to my noble friend Lord Lucas. While I am simply not in a position to either associate myself with, or dissociate myself from, some parts of his overall argument, I noted his last point in particular, which involves the relationship between complaint handlers or ombudsmen and the courts. That is exactly the point on which I hope to focus attention later, in a wider sense, with regard to Amendment No. 96 and the new clause it contains. Without feeling that I wish to make some great declaration, I shall be particularly interested to hear the Minister’s comments on the last point my noble friend made about precisely that relationship.