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Debate on bill on Thursday, 10 July 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. The answering member was Lord Kingsland.

Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill

Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
703 c866-900 
Session
2007-08
Department
Ministry of Justice
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2008-1903
Monday, 14 July 2008
Deposited papers
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Deposited Paper DEP2008-1912
Monday, 14 July 2008
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 703 c898 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the noble Lord knows, and as has been indicated by the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, we i...
Lord Goodhart | 703 c898 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble and learned Baroness referred to test purchases as one of the circumstances in w...
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Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 703 c898-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if noble Lords look at Condition A, they will see that that is the fourth species dealt wi...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 703 c899 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the noble and learned Baroness assure us that, in preparing the forthcoming Bill, she...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 703 c899 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I certainly hear what the noble Lord says. We have found it incredibly helpful that the wh...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 703 c899 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does not the noble and learned Baroness agree that if the backstop were precise and not ca...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 703 c886-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble kinswoman Lady Walmsley revealed to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, in the Chamber the...
Lord Kingsland | 703 c890-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the right honourable gentleman the Secretary of State for Justice and his minister...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 703 c897 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course I hear what the noble Viscount says, but two species of cases would cause us dif...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 703 c897 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, how does one make an application for an anonymity order to the magistrates’ court that is ...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 703 c897 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is quite right, given the way in which things have evolved, that we do not have, before...
Viscount Bledisloe | 703 c897 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble and learned Baroness referred earlier to serious cases. She has not really dealt...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 703 c895-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a constructive debate. I warmly welcome the support we have received from al...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 703 c894 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not wish to prolong the debate, but I do not know whether the noble Lord is aware tha...
Lord Kingsland | 703 c894-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful, as I always am, for the noble Lord’s intervention. I was not aware of ...
Baroness Mallalieu | 703 c886 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend. Clearly yet another amendment will have to be prepa...
Lord Grabiner | 703 c886 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before my noble friend sits down for the third time, for which I apologise, she will not b...
Baroness Mallalieu | 703 c886 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord if he feels that I was suggesting for one moment that he wou...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 703 c886 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, has the noble Baroness read the various reports of the Joint Committee on Human Rights? It...
Baroness Mallalieu | 703 c886 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very much aware of that. I have read the helpful briefing that Liberty has sent, but ...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 703 c885 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness made the point that all three main political parties, under public pres...
Baroness Mallalieu | 703 c883-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for the first time in the debate, the noble Lord, Lord Marlesford, has put a finger on the...
Lord Marlesford | 703 c882 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I realise that, but I suspect that when the police have effectively done a deal and said t...
Lord Grabiner | 703 c882 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with great respect, I do not think it right to say that it has been a matter purely for po...
Lord Goodlad | 703 c871-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the Second Reading of the Bill, subject to our further scrutiny of its provision...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 703 c878-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wholeheartedly agree with all noble Lords who have spoken that this is a case that cries...
Lord Grabiner | 703 c876-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Lester. It is a particularly ...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 703 c881 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not know whether the noble Lord is aware that the first problem about the European Co...
Lord Marlesford | 703 c880-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is obviously with great trepidation that a lay man such as me ventures into an area of ...
Lord Marlesford | 703 c881-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for his learned view. There may well be circumstances alr...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 703 c870 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course, I am sorry if I misunderstood the point that was raised about the circumstances...
Lord McCluskey | 703 c870 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister kindly explain why the Bill’s provisions will not apply in Scotland? Is ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 703 c870-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was open to the Scottish authorities to go through the Sewel process. They have chosen ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 703 c870 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that the noble Lord grasped the significance of the previous question. As t...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 703 c870 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the cases to which we are referring are described as test purchase cases where the police ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 703 c869-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one hopes that the Bill is so crafted that innate unfairness will not be evident. Indeed, ...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 703 c869 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, notwithstanding the sunset provision, if before then it is established that there is innat...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 703 c866-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. As the House will be aware, the ne...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 703 c900 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I reassure the noble Lord, Lord Lester, that the date of 31 December has done just that, b...
Lord Marlesford | 703 c897 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, how does the noble and learned Baroness square what she has just said with what we heard f...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 703 c873-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, support the Second Reading of the Bill. I declare an interest as a member of the J...
Viscount Bledisloe | 703 c870 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, could he enlighten me on one point? He referred to eviden...
Subjects
Disclosure of information Admissibility of evidence Criminal proceedings Common law Evidence Human rights European Convention on Human Rights House of Lords Intimidation Judgements Protection Witnesses Sunset clauses
Legislation
Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill 2007-08
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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