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Proceeding contribution from Lord Mayhew of Twysden (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 18 January 2012. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

We quite understand the point that the noble and learned Lord is making: that the intention of Ministers is to restrict legal aid to serious cases and that that is the measure. Would he reflect on the position of someone whose liberty has been wrongfully denied and whether it would be any consolation to know that that resulted not from a deliberate act but from some oversight—a mistake, to use the words already employed, of an egregious kind? It does not seem to me that it makes much difference, if you are unlawfully detained, whether it was just by mistake.

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
734 c631 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Disability Children Compensation Admissions Asylum Detainees Consent to medical treatment Damages Debts Crown lands and estates Credit Equality Housing Education Legal aid scheme Immigration Domestic abuse Human trafficking Discrimination Learning disability Domestic service Landlords Evictions Drinks Duchy of Cornwall Medical treatments Patients Protection Nutrition Palliative care Migrant workers Social security benefits Water Special educational needs Sexual offences Refugees Repairs and maintenance Tenants Rented housing Repossession orders Debt relief orders
Legislation
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill 2010-12
Link
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