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Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Monday, 22 January 2007, in the House of Lords.

Legal Services Bill [HL]

Legal Services Bill (HL). Lords Committee stage second day. Clauses 3 to 19 agreed to. Schedules 2 and 3 agreed to. Part 1 of 2 records.

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2006-07
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Department for Constitutional Affairs
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Clinton-Davis | 688 c917 (Link to this contribution) Are not the principals of the paralegals responsible for their actions or inactions?
Lord Kingsland | 688 c916-7 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 35B: 35B: After Clause 4 , insert the following new Clause— ““Paralegals (1) T...
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Baroness Butler-Sloss | 688 c915 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as chancellor of the University of the West of England, which provides an exce...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c914-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my noble friend. Like my noble friend Lord Kingsland, I do not propose to move Amendmen...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c916 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for her response and to all noble Lords who have intervened...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) I begin with the concern of the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss. I can categorically s...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c913-4 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for that response. It was genuinely helpful, not just in th...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c914 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 34: 34: Clause 4, page 2, line 37, leave out from ““must”” to end of line 38 a...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c914 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment but I want to be a bit of a bore again. In relation to this or some other am...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c912-3 (Link to this contribution) I interrupt the noble Lord only so that he does not have to interpret my body language again. I need...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c912 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for her response and to all noble Lords who have spoken. It...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the noble Lord. I thought it might be something of that nature, but I did not ...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c911 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to intervene, having slightly regretted interventions. I used the word ““incubus””, somet...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c911 (Link to this contribution) I was going to interrupt the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan, because I did not understand what he said I...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c911 (Link to this contribution) I shall be very short. Is it the Government’s intention, or is it not, that the board should maintai...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c911 (Link to this contribution) I prefer to complete my remarks. I have already given way twice. It might help if I conclude my argu...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 688 c910 (Link to this contribution) Reading the measure, I understand that the intention is to have a light touch, but it allows for a h...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c898-9 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my noble friends. Indeed, it may reassure my noble friend Lord Campbell of All...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c899-900 (Link to this contribution) I hope that in this debate we will go beyond comforting words to a little more precision about how t...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c896 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now again resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. Mov...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c896-7 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 33: 33: Clause 3, page 2, line 35, at end insert— ““(4) In assessing what is p...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c897-8 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment. It concerns proportionality, but proportionality is like a piece of a jigsa...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c906-8 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Maclennan, is absolutely right to say that the purpose of this stage of our del...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that we should press the Minister a little further on this important amendment. Nothing in t...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c909 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for spelling out the detail on this matter and I will try to respond...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c909 (Link to this contribution) What we want the Bill to make clear is that lead responsibility is intended to rest with the profess...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c909-10 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord. We think that what he asks for is there in the totality of the Bill...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c910 (Link to this contribution) In some ways, yes. But the difficulty with the amendment is that it says that the LSB must ensure th...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c910 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister is right in her answer to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern—and I...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c906 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for putting that so succinctly.
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c906 (Link to this contribution) I greatly appreciated the noble Lord’s speech. In a sentence, he is saying that the parameters withi...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c905-6 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support the words of the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, about the centrality and importance ...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c903 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Minister for her response and, indeed, to all noble Lords who have partici...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c902 (Link to this contribution) I want to explore further exactly what the Minister means. I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Maclenn...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c902 (Link to this contribution) The third option is that I will convince the noble Lord that the thresholds are right. I am grateful...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c905 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment for the simple reason that it makes a crucial point that what is compatible ...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c905 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that my noble friend Lord Kingsland has raised the question of cost. As we plough throu...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c903 (Link to this contribution) That is a very helpful response. In those circumstances, I need not grapple with the point any furth...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c904-5 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 33A: 33A: Clause 3 , page 2, line 35, at end insert— ““(4) The role of the Boa...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c956-7 (Link to this contribution) I regard the proposition being espoused by the noble Lord as micromanagement and that our proposal i...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c955-6 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord does not quite get my point, which perhaps demonstrates that I am not putting it very...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c956 (Link to this contribution) I am not suggesting that the board should carry out an exercise in looking for problems. My point is...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c954-5 (Link to this contribution) If what happens is what the noble Lord has described, I would do nothing other than agree with him. ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c955 (Link to this contribution) I respectfully suggest to the noble Baroness that the board will intervene only where grounds for co...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c953-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the noble Lord that we do not want to be clogged up with changes, but how do we get to ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c952-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to noble Lords for raising those points. I have discussed the matter with the Law Soci...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c953 (Link to this contribution) It would be very helpful for a moment to pause and reflect. The more I hear the words of the Ministe...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c952 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my noble friend. This is a simple amendment. It is a practical measure which will make ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c951 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for her reply, which I shall read carefully in considering ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c951 (Link to this contribution) It might allay the noble Lord’s fears if I wrote to him with further examples of the kind of people ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Schedule 3 agree...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c952 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 42: 42: Schedule 4 , page 132, line 40, leave out sub-paragraph (3) and insert...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 688 c949 (Link to this contribution) I should say that judges are not supposed to use Latin any more since the noble and learned Lord, Lo...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c949 (Link to this contribution) I am absolutely not going to take issue with what the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss,...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 688 c949 (Link to this contribution) I think that is the latest idea, but not one to which I subscribe. I am merely saying what I think i...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c950-1 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful, and I will of course check that. I will also check the point made by the noble a...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c948-9 (Link to this contribution) moved AmendmentNo. 41: 41: Schedule 3, page 125, line 24, leave out paragraphs (b)and (c) The nob...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 688 c961 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. In moving that Motion, I suggest that the Committee stag...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c960 (Link to this contribution) Save, on this occasion, for the Minister’s. But she has been batting at the wicket for several hours...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c960 (Link to this contribution) In paragraph 21(1) of Schedule 4, we think we have more or less captured what the noble Viscount is ...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c958 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. Are we not, I ask with respect, getting back to the discussion ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c958-9 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted to leave it at that, but I have one final point. As the noble Lord knows, I do ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c959 (Link to this contribution) I shall just make my point, and then the noble Lord can reasonably interrupt me again. If we followe...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c959 (Link to this contribution) I am not suggesting that the Minister has not taken due regard. All I am saying is that that due reg...
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c959 (Link to this contribution) I venture to suggest that both the Minister and the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, have dug th...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c959 (Link to this contribution) I am not in a hole. I am with the noble Viscount. That is what I am trying to say—that the board sho...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c957 (Link to this contribution) I think it will be the exact opposite. I have much greater faith in lay chairs and lay members than ...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 688 c957 (Link to this contribution) I hope the noble Baroness will forgive me for interrupting. I had no intention of being in any way c...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c958 (Link to this contribution) I was not suggesting that the noble and learned Baroness has anything other than the highest respect...
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c920 (Link to this contribution) Of course I was not implying that the noble Lord, Lord Neill, was father to these 450,000 paralegals...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c920 (Link to this contribution) The question is what we mean by ““providing advice””. People working for citizens advice bureaux, fo...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c920 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, but I am making a distinction between the role of the regulator and the supervisory regulato...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c921 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. As I said, this is a probing amendment; and we have had an...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c921-2 (Link to this contribution) That is an absolutely fair point. The purpose of Clause 159, which is about the board’s relationship...
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c920 (Link to this contribution) I cannot think of anyone more suitable.
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c920-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall repeat that for the benefit of those who missed it. The noble Viscount said that he could no...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c922 (Link to this contribution) Once again, I am most grateful. This is a probing amendment. Members of the Committee have had an op...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c922 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. We have had an opportunity to air this matter.
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c922 (Link to this contribution) Quite reasonably, Clause 159(3) states: "““Arrangements … may include provision as to the terms on w...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c917 (Link to this contribution) That might be one of the Government’s responses in replying to the amendment. This is a probing amen...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 688 c917 (Link to this contribution) The point made by the noble Lord is correct—that this is a probing amendment. However, I want to poi...
Lord Neill of Bladen | 688 c918 (Link to this contribution) As always, I declare my interests: I am a practising barrister and a former chairman of the Bar, and...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c918-9 (Link to this contribution) After checking Appendix 2 in the joint select committee’s report, I agree that we did not receive ev...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 688 c919 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to pose as an enemy of paralegals—they serve a very useful purpose—but it is entirely ...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c919 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course they are. The noble Lord is right. In the firms of which he has had experience, and i...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c919 (Link to this contribution) I agree with noble Lords that this has been an interesting debate. I, too, have only just been conta...
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c920 (Link to this contribution) I am puzzled. Is the Minister saying—I confess that this is what I thought—that the 450,000 paralega...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c920 (Link to this contribution) I certainly was not saying that. I was saying that it is the rule that they are not permitted to pro...
Lord Neill of Bladen | 688 c920 (Link to this contribution) I am a simple seeker of the truth. What the letter claims is that some or all of the 450,000 people ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c937 (Link to this contribution) I am prepared to accept the noble Lord’s amendment in principle.
Lord Kingsland | 688 c936-7 (Link to this contribution) I would not wish the noble Baroness to be in any doubt about the importance that the Opposition atta...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c935-6 (Link to this contribution) Throughout the legislation there are opportunities where the board is required to consider represent...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c934 (Link to this contribution) I hope the Minister will reconsider this, not just in the context of providing natural justice but a...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 688 c933-4 (Link to this contribution) I support what the previous two noble Lords have said. In Clause 10 the board must consider represen...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c933 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Baroness consider the matter again in the light of what the noble Viscount has just s...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c935 (Link to this contribution) Briefly on the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, there is no obligation on the LSB to say, ...
Lord Borrie | 688 c935 (Link to this contribution) That is a typical argument from the Opposition. I am surprised to hear it from the noble Viscount, L...
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c935 (Link to this contribution) If it is obviously going to do it, what on earth is the harm in the Bill saying so?
Lord Borrie | 688 c934 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may be forgiven for speaking again. There was something of an air of unreality about some ...
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c932 (Link to this contribution) It seemed to me that the noble Lord, Lord Campbell, had conclusively answered the point made by the ...
Lord Neill of Bladen | 688 c931-2 (Link to this contribution) I find that I nearly always agree with everything that the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, says, but today ...
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c933 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Baroness deal with my point? Clause 10 compels the board to listen to representations...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c932-3 (Link to this contribution) I start from the principle that the legal professional bodies are well established, well organised a...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c929 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 38: 38: After Clause 11 , insert the following new Clause— ““Professional repr...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c928-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for the opportunity to say a bit more. I am not sure that I can give...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c930-1 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my noble friend Lord Kingsland and the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan. The Governm...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c930 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland. It appears a sensible amendment ...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c931 (Link to this contribution) I take the point that has just been made by the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, but ought there not to be a...
Lord Borrie | 688 c931 (Link to this contribution) It has just occurred to me that it might be desirable to have a Consumer Panel as is proposed in the...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c927 (Link to this contribution) That clarification is very helpful. I look forward to seeing at some stage in the future at the back...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c927 (Link to this contribution) I was going to say little more than that, if that is all right. It is desirable. We expect equal opp...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her reply. As far as the parallels with the Financial Servic...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c926 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the noble Lord about making sure that members of the Consumer Panel should be appointed...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c925-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 37: 37: Clause 8, page 4, line 23, leave out paragraph (a) and insert— ““(a) a...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c925 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will. This is where I have the disadvantage—or advantage, I am not sure—of not being a l...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c925 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord; indeed I will.
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c924 (Link to this contribution) That is completely fair. In talking to my honourable friend Bridget Prentice, who has policy respons...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c923 (Link to this contribution) If ever there was a sweeping-up provision it is Clause 7, entitled ““Supplementary powers””. It give...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c923 (Link to this contribution) Whether or not we do anything about making that clearer, it is important to stress that noble Lords ...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c924 (Link to this contribution) The all-encompassing nature of this enabling clause reinforces the remarks that I made on an earlier...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c924 (Link to this contribution) I love the idea of your Lordships’ House or indeed the noble Lord himself allowing anything of this ...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c922 (Link to this contribution) Clause 6(2)(c) will now read: "““such other matters as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time dir...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c922 (Link to this contribution) moved AmendmentNo. 36: 36: Clause 6, page 3, line 14, leave out ““Secretary of State”” and insert ...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c923 (Link to this contribution) This gives me the opportunity to give notice to the future Legal Services Board that, when its annua...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c923 (Link to this contribution) I would not describe it as a sweeping-up paragraph. One of the great opportunities in setting up a r...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c945 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is right. We should reflect on the point that he makes as there are a number of unreg...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c947 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Minister for her response. It is clearly necessary that a more detailed in...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c945-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to noble Lords for giving me the chance to talk about this important issue. I start fr...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c947 (Link to this contribution) I must say that the way my noble friend was perorating it sounded as though it was his amendment.
Lord Kingsland | 688 c947 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, as chairman of the Joint Committee my noble friend knows more about the substance of the ame...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c947 (Link to this contribution) I rise only because I would not want the noble Lord or Hansard readers to think that we were contest...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c947 (Link to this contribution) Nevertheless, I am sure the Government can be in no doubt about the importance of will-writing. The ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c948 (Link to this contribution) That is a completely fair question. Rather than try to deal with an area of policy for which I have ...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c948 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful. In so far as there is a division between the view of the Government and that of ...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c942 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more and we await the Minister’s further contribution. I hope that the noble Visco...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c942 (Link to this contribution) I agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan of Rogart, seeks to achieve. There is within Amendm...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c943 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Lord. I would have no objection whatever.
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c943 (Link to this contribution) I am very puzzled by the Government’s attitude to wills. If one looks at paragraph 5 of Schedule 2, ...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c942-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 39: 39: Clause 12 , page 5, line 25, at end insert— ““( ) will-writing for fee...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 688 c943 (Link to this contribution) I wish to raise a small point. Clause 12(1)(d) refers to ““probate activity””. Would the noble Lord ...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c945 (Link to this contribution) The particular mischief that I want to remove by this amendment is that will-drafting services are p...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 688 c945 (Link to this contribution) There are commercial organisations, clearly with an interest in the affair, that provide exactly tho...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c943-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the noble Viscount, who raises a very important point. Amendment No. 40 is included in ...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 688 c945 (Link to this contribution) Why does the noble Lord insist on ““will-writing for fee, gain or reward””? Would ““will-writing”” n...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 688 c939 (Link to this contribution) I raise a point that is contained in the paragraphs headed ““The Practitioner Panel”” and related to...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c940 (Link to this contribution) The FSA is a front-line regulator, so there is no opportunity for representations to be made from re...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c940-2 (Link to this contribution) It is the example the Minister provided in the context of a consumer panel and only a consumer panel...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c942 (Link to this contribution) In moving Amendment No. 38 the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, indicated that he preferred it to this am...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c939 (Link to this contribution) I shall reflect on what the noble Lord has said. I think the wording used follows very closely the w...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 688 c939 (Link to this contribution) When considering that point will he also consider the provision under Clause 8 which provides for th...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c940 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the noble Lord. Although the Secretary of State’s approval is required for the appointm...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c942 (Link to this contribution) Again, the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan of Rogart, has said what I wanted to say, but has said it much...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c938 (Link to this contribution) I merely point out that I cannot accept anything other than in principle, which the noble Lord may h...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c938 (Link to this contribution) I need a short adjournment to work out exactly what the noble Baroness has just said. Be that as it ...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c937-8 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may say one thing and then of course I shall give way. It was the unanimous view of the Jo...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c937 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 38A: 38A: After Clause 11, insert the following new Clause— ““Practitioner Pan...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c937 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness has captured me just before I have reached my cruising altitude. In those circums...
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c937 (Link to this contribution) Why is the noble Lord withdrawing the amendment when the Minister has accepted it?
Viscount Bledisloe | 688 c938 (Link to this contribution) Surely the noble Baroness has gone far enough for the moment. She has generously accepted the princi...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe the Minister needs the assistance of the Viscount, Lord Bledisloe, as I was about t...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c900-2 (Link to this contribution) I found that an interesting debate. I have to confess that I did not know where the amendment came f...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c960 (Link to this contribution) I feel I ought to apologise for tabling this amendment, because it seems to have consumed so much of...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 688 c910-1 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the noble Baroness’s intervention, but I had a further point to make. The Minister drew...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 688 c903 (Link to this contribution) I will be very happy to consider guidance.
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 688 c954 (Link to this contribution) The impression I get is that this gives the board something to do. It is required to look at every c...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) I know that we will have an opportunity later to deal with the whole question of a practitioner pane...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c925 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister and ask her to reflect, between now and Report, on whether we should put some m...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 688 c940 (Link to this contribution) The comparisons are always difficult, but the Financial Services Authority utilises the Law Society ...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 688 c940 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend has just said that there has to be a structure. That is quite right. Without such a ...
Lord Kingsland | 688 c937 (Link to this contribution) She said that she accepted it in principle. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 688 c910 (Link to this contribution) Does the proposal in Amendment No. 33A represent the policy of the Government on the relationship be...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 688 c957 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness. How do the Government think sub-paragraph (3) is going t...
Lord Neill of Bladen | 688 c924-5 (Link to this contribution) I recognise these words, which are familiar from the memorandum of association of limited companies;...
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Consumers Appeals Competition Legal profession Fees and charges Education Law Society Public appointments Patents Standards Training Regulation Solicitors Trade marks Wills Legal Services Board Legal Services Consumer Panel
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Legal Services Bill (HL) 2006-07
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