My Lords, I am a member of the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights; I shall leave it the day after tomorrow, or whenever Parliament rises, because I have done my four years. The committee looked at this issue and did not think it would pass the Human Rights Act...

My Lords, I am a member of the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights; I shall leave it the day after tomorrow, or whenever Parliament rises, because I have done my four years. The committee looked at this issue and did not think it would pass the Human Rights Act...

Those children, and for the sake of this argument they are children, were obviously committing an offence. Surely it is up to the officers of the law either to apprehend them or do whatever is right. Those children were doing something wrong and illegal under existing legislation.

Those children, and for the sake of this argument they are children, were obviously committing an offence. Surely it is up to the officers of the law either to apprehend them or do whatever is right. Those children were doing something wrong and illegal under existing legislation.

My Lords, there is something rather delicious about this. The noble Lord reminds me irresistibly on this occasion of the Venerable Bede, who waxed lyrical about the drunkenness of his young monks. Garibaldi sent his English volunteers back because they got paralytic and behaved badly. The troops in the 1914...

My Lords, there is something rather delicious about this. The noble Lord reminds me irresistibly on this occasion of the Venerable Bede, who waxed lyrical about the drunkenness of his young monks. Garibaldi sent his English volunteers back because they got paralytic and behaved badly. The troops in the 1914...

Exactly. What the noble Lord, Lord Skelmersdale, is saying seems to me a sensible, grown-up way of approaching this: take the child back home and give it to its parents. That would be much better than letting it get into the criminal system. We must do everything that we can...

Exactly. What the noble Lord, Lord Skelmersdale, is saying seems to me a sensible, grown-up way of approaching this: take the child back home and give it to its parents. That would be much better than letting it get into the criminal system. We must do everything that we can...

My Lords, I listened, as always, with immense care to what the noble Baroness, Lady Stern, said. She is one of the wiser Members of your Lordships’ House. I pay that compliment with great sincerity; I believe it to be right. We must be very careful about criminalising younger and...

My Lords, I listened, as always, with immense care to what the noble Baroness, Lady Stern, said. She is one of the wiser Members of your Lordships’ House. I pay that compliment with great sincerity; I believe it to be right. We must be very careful about criminalising younger and...

My Lords, it is worth bearing in mind the following set of statistics. Last week the Agricultural Wages Board said that the wage for a skilled man was £333 a week, or something like that; half a pint of beer costs now £1.50. From the time of my birth in...

My Lords, it is worth bearing in mind the following set of statistics. Last week the Agricultural Wages Board said that the wage for a skilled man was £333 a week, or something like that; half a pint of beer costs now £1.50. From the time of my birth in...

The noble Lord said, quite rightly, that he is worried about cheap beer. I do not know whether this is within that context, but I remember very clearly when my daughter went up to Oxford that there were young people absolutely paralytic at four o'clock on the first day because...

The noble Lord said, quite rightly, that he is worried about cheap beer. I do not know whether this is within that context, but I remember very clearly when my daughter went up to Oxford that there were young people absolutely paralytic at four o'clock on the first day because...

My Lords, I listened with particular interest to what my noble and learned friend Lord Lyell has just said. It strikes me as very odd that we should be legislating for something that it is illegal to do—in other words, produce injunctions for those under 18. I was impressed by...

My Lords, I listened with particular interest to what my noble and learned friend Lord Lyell has just said. It strikes me as very odd that we should be legislating for something that it is illegal to do—in other words, produce injunctions for those under 18. I was impressed by...

My Lords, I have put my name to this amendment, which arises out of the deliberations of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. As your Lordships probably know, the spectrum on that committee is wide, but unanimously we were unconvinced that the Government had made their case for these gang...

My Lords, I have put my name to this amendment, which arises out of the deliberations of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. As your Lordships probably know, the spectrum on that committee is wide, but unanimously we were unconvinced that the Government had made their case for these gang...

The noble Baroness mentioned a list of people who support this proposal. It was also one of the issues on which the JCHR was unanimous. I draw the Minister’s attention to our report, where it says that: ""The proposed injunctions are identical to or more severe than ASBOs which require...

The noble Baroness mentioned a list of people who support this proposal. It was also one of the issues on which the JCHR was unanimous. I draw the Minister’s attention to our report, where it says that: ""The proposed injunctions are identical to or more severe than ASBOs which require...

Clause 33: Injunctions to prevent gang-related violence Amendment 126 126: Clause 33, page 27, line 21, leave out "two" and insert "four"

Clause 33: Injunctions to prevent gang-related violence Amendment 126 126: Clause 33, page 27, line 21, leave out "two" and insert "four"