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Debate on bill on Monday, 8 February 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Bach. The answering member was Lord Pannick.

Bribery Bill [HL]

Bribery Bill (HL). Lords third reading debate. Agreed to on question. Bill passed with amendment and sent to the Commons.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
717 c481-502 
Session
2009-10
Department
Ministry of Justice
Legislative stage
Third reading
Procedure
Government defeats
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Related items
Bribery Bill (HL). As amended on Report.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Bills
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Pannick | 717 c499-502 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his careful and courteous consideration of this issue at all stages of the ...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 717 c498-9 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the Minister’s remark that, if the House does not agree with the Government’s propos...
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Lord Bach | 717 c498 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect to the noble and learned Lord, the amendment would not preserve Clause 13,...
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 717 c498 (Link to this contribution) I just ask for the Minister’s help. Let us suppose that one is persuaded by him of the difficulties ...
Lord Bach | 717 c498 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord asked me that question before, and I still do not have the answer—but I suspect that ...
Lord Bach | 717 c499 (Link to this contribution) I accept the noble Lord’s great experience on this point, but I am advised that with regard to offen...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 717 c497 (Link to this contribution) On the safeguards which have been referred to by my noble friend, several noble and learned Lords, i...
Lord Bach | 717 c498 (Link to this contribution) What we are taking about in this Bill is a defence of bribery that could be tried only in United Kin...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 717 c498 (Link to this contribution) I raise a matter to which I alluded on the last occasion with regard to the number of prosecutions i...
Lord Bach | 717 c497 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I appreciate as much as anybody the distinction of the noble and learned Lords who have sp...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 717 c487 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble and learned Lord and assure him that the Intelligence and Security Committee has t...
Lord Woolf | 717 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope I will be forgiven if I deal with the present amendment at the same time as Amendme...
Earl of Onslow | 717 c488 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, apart from the fact that the four people who have put their names to this amendment could ...
Lord Woolf | 717 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, for indicating that, but my understanding of the situ...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 717 c484 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Lord sits down, has he any comment to make on the intervention of the noble and lea...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 717 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, speaking as the Lords member of the Intelligence and Security Committee—I have now also be...
Lord Goodlad | 717 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, in his exposition of the reasons why the amendment...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 717 c484 (Link to this contribution) I fully respect my noble and learned friend, who served on the Intelligence and Security Committee w...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 717 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think the point that we are all trying to cover is the protection of the security servic...
Baroness Whitaker | 717 c485 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as not only a non-lawyer but a non-expert, I always thought that the idea of authorisation...
Lord Bach | 717 c493-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure I can give the noble Lord an example, but I do not think that the fact I cannot implie...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 717 c493 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister give me one example where there is a reverse legal burden of proof on a defendant w...
Lord Bach | 717 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that the noble Lord is rephrasing at all. It is doubtful whether either set...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 717 c489 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord’s remarks are pertinent, but I am sure he will instantly recognise that they cut both...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 717 c489 (Link to this contribution) Not only do we examine the accounts very carefully and ask a lot of questions, but now, under this G...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 717 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like very succinctly to support these amendments and the points that have been ma...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 717 c492 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord for saying that. We are at one on that. I think he ap...
Lord Bach | 717 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I also thank them personally for t...
Baroness Hanham | 717 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at this very late stage of the Bill, I hope that the House will forgive me if I intervene ...
Viscount Colville of Culross | 717 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have an amendment in this group that deals with the matter in the opposite way from the ...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 717 c483 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support this amendment for the reasons that the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, has given. The...
Lord Pannick | 717 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) 3: Clause 10, page 7, line 2, at end insert— ““(6) Consent may not be given for the institution of p...
Lord Pannick | 717 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the agreement of the House and of the noble Lord, Lord Goodlad, perhaps I may move Am...
Lord Bach | 717 c481 (Link to this contribution) That the Bill be now read a third time. That the Bill be now read a third time.
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 717 c481 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the House begins the Third Reading of the Bribery Bill, it may be helpful for me to...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 717 c497-8 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister feel able to address, even briefly, an argument that was advanced by the chairman ...
Notes
In the division Baroness Blood should be included in the list of those voting Not Content in place of Lord Blackwell.
Subjects
Criminal proceedings Courts Armed forces Corruption Intelligence services Ministerial powers National security Bribery
Legislation
Bribery Bill (HL) 2009-10
Link
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