Lord Pannick

My Lords, can the Minister confirm—I think he said this in answer to my noble friend Lord Alton—that the Bill will guarantee funding for legal represe...

Can I ask for the noble Lord’s assistance? He mentioned that, according to subsection (3), “the proceedings are to be proceeded with as if they had...

This is a very important matter. Surely the answer to his concern that the individual case may raise wider, broader issues is that it is absolutely in...

My Lords, I added my name to Amendment 1 because it provides the best solution to a sensitive problem. There is, at present, uncertainty as to whether...

I point out to the noble Lord, who lauds the market, that an important part of the impetus for the Bill was that a number of Premier League clubs were...

My Lords, I declare my football interests: I remain a season ticket holder at Arsenal Football Club and counsel to Manchester City Football Club in th...

My Lords, does the Minister agree that, in addressing the very serious problems faced by the criminal justice system, it is important not to romantici...

My Lords, we undermine respect for this House if we continue to have people who do not turn up more than once in each Session. The answer to the point...

The noble Baroness has been extremely helpful. In the period before Third Reading, if the noble Lord, Lord Ashton, agrees with that approach, would sh...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Cromwell has asked me to apologise to the House on his behalf, as he is unable to be here today. Amendment 58, tabled i...

My Lords, I have a few short points. I entirely agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, has just said. First, I hope that when we vote, if we...

Is there not a fundamental distinction between Nelson Mandela and the suffragettes on the one hand and our society today in which everybody has the ri...

My Lords, the issue before the House is not the merits of the hereditary Peers or the contribution they make, about which there can be no doubt. The i...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating a very sensitive Statement. I was in Jerusalem last week, speaking at a legal seminar at the Hebrew Unive...