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Debates on delegated legislation on Thursday, 25 March 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Bach. The answering member was Lord Henley.

Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2010

Draft Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2010. Lords debate on a motion to approve. Agreed to on question. Debated with draft Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment) Order 2010.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
718 c1152-77 
Session
2009-10
Department
Ministry of Justice
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Related items
Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment) Order 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Statutory instruments
House of Commons
House of Lords
Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Statutory instruments
House of Commons
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1156 (Link to this contribution) I hope the Minister will forgive me for interrupting again. My understanding is that that recommenda...
Lord Bach | 718 c1156 (Link to this contribution) If the noble and learned Lord does not know the answer to his question, I certainly do not. I will t...
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Lord Woolf | 718 c1155 (Link to this contribution) While the Minister has been interrupted, I want to raise another matter which would assist me. I reg...
Lord Bach | 718 c1155 (Link to this contribution) I will answer the noble Lord in the course of what I have to say in the next few minutes. I am grate...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 718 c1155 (Link to this contribution) Where did the figure of 10 per cent come from? Did the Lord Chancellor not consider 30 per cent or 2...
Lord Bach | 718 c1153-5 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can answer the noble and learned Lord a little later. The regulations require that a repr...
Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1153 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister will forgive me. Can he clarify one point? He said that these regulations w...
Lord Bach | 718 c1152-3 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I shall speak also to the draft Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment) ...
Lord Bach | 718 c1152 (Link to this contribution) Moved By That the draft regulations laid before the House on 16 March be approved. Relevant Docum...
Lord Goodhart | 718 c1173 (Link to this contribution) Why does the noble Lord not accept that the real problem here is defective libel law, which makes it...
Lord Pannick | 718 c1173 (Link to this contribution) I strongly suspect that it will make no difference at all, because the lawyers are understandably an...
Lord Woolf | 718 c1173 (Link to this contribution) Would the noble Lord, whose knowledge about these matters I respect greatly, be good enough to indic...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 718 c1175 (Link to this contribution) Paragraph 3.11 of the impact assessment states: ""The introduction of a maximum cap may result in so...
Lord Bach | 718 c1174-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank everyone who has spoken in this debate. I defend my noble friend the Chief Whip. A...
Lord Marlesford | 718 c1174 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not of course seeking to address your Lordships’ House on the merits of these issues,...
Lord Pannick | 718 c1174 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support all the points that the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, made about the curre...
Lord Bach | 718 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) For the noble Lord, of course I can do better than that. Although there may well be an election fair...
Lord Bach | 718 c1175-6 (Link to this contribution) In every instance there are advantages and disadvantages. The fact remains that this was an unregula...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 718 c1176 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that we are getting pretty close to the wire. We have an Easter Recess coming up, ...
Lord Henley | 718 c1169 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this could have been tabled so we could have had more time. It was obviously something tha...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 718 c1168 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not wishing to stifle debate, but can I politely draw attention to the time? The Hous...
Lord Henley | 718 c1169 (Link to this contribution) May I assist the House? We do not have an hour and three-quarter slot. We have as long as this House...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 718 c1169 (Link to this contribution) I am not trying to stifle debate, but we have got an hour and three-quarter slot for this and it wou...
Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1168 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like my noble and learned friend Lord Woolf, I start by declaring some interests. I was so...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 718 c1157-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am speaking to the amendment which is still to be moved. I thank the Table Office for it...
Lord Bach | 718 c1157 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may first answer the question of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Scott, and then of cours...
Lord Bach | 718 c1156-7 (Link to this contribution) Again, if the noble and learned Lord will forgive me, I will find out and come back with an answer t...
Lord Woolf | 718 c1166-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest which causes in me a sense of déjà-vu. I was responsible for the Acc...
Lord Henley | 718 c1162-3 (Link to this contribution) As I said, and I think I made it perfectly clear, we were not going to oppose this order. We are say...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 718 c1163-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, unlike the noble Lord, Lord Martin, the profession I follow means that I have spent much o...
Lord Henley | 718 c1161-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that the Minister was hoping for a relatively brief debate. We originally scheduled...
Lord Carlile of Berriew | 718 c1162 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord, but some of us have listened to his speech with mounting confusion,...
Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1169-71 (Link to this contribution) I will say no more about the meeting I had with the Minister. I think I have given the gist of it. ...
Lord Pannick | 718 c1171-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my admiration for the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, and his magisterial work in prom...
Lord Scott of Foscote | 718 c1169 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having heard the noble Lords, I will continue but I will endeavour to be as brief as I pos...
Subjects
Defamation Damages Civil proceedings Fees and charges Legal costs Newspaper press Tribunals VAT Conditional fee agreements
Legislation
Damages-based Agreements Regulations 2010
Conditional Fee Agreements (Amendment) Order 2010
Link
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