Lord Hendy

Lord Hendy

The Lord Hendy KC

Labour
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Member since 14 October 2019

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Employment Rights Bill

22/07/2025Lords

8 contributions
My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who spoke in the debate on my amendment. I have a couple of words by way of reply. I point out to t...
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My Lords, this amendment is a reproduction of the amendment on secondary action that I moved in Committee. Of course, your Lordships are far too polit...
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Employment Rights Bill

22/07/2025Lords

1 contribution
My Lords, no one hearing the speeches of the noble Lords who have spoken could be other than sympathetic to the objects of the amendments in this grou...
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Universal Credit Bill

21/07/2025Lords

1 contribution
My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Browning. The retirement of the noble Baroness, Lady Bryan of Partick, is a loss to the H...
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Employment Rights Bill

20/07/2025Lords

6 contributions
I do not really recognise the workplace that the noble Baroness describes. The fact of the matter is that only some—
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My Lords, before I speak to my Amendment 127, I will say a few words about Amendment 125, from the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe. He and other noble Lords o...
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Employment Rights Bill

15/07/2025Lords

1 contribution
Given that the noble Lord, Lord Howard, and I practised in employment tribunals, does he agree with me that there are now strong procedures by which e...
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Employment Rights Bill

23/06/2025Lords

1 contribution
My Lords, I feel obliged to add a word to my noble friend Lord Berkeley’s amendment, because I was counsel for the union in the Deliveroo case which t...
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Employment Rights Bill

09/06/2025Lords

6 contributions
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, for her support, her attention to Amendments 239 and 241, and her economic analysis o...
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My Lords, it is now 10.22 pm, so I apologise for assaulting your Lordships’ ears with a series of amendments which also deal with the right to strike....
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Employment Rights Bill

09/06/2025Lords

3 contributions
Forgive me, but those two cases do not demonstrate that. I am familiar with this jurisprudence; I suggest that the noble Baroness read the cases again...
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Let me put it more respectfully: I disagree. That is not what the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on Article 11 demonstrates. Ther...
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Employment Rights Bill

04/06/2025Lords

12 contributions
My Lords, my Amendment 214 is designed to provide an effective remedy against an employer which defies an order of the CAC to provide trade union acce...
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My Lords, I added my name to this amendment, and the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, and the noble Lord, Lord Freyberg, have said everything that I wanted...
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Employment Rights Bill

02/06/2025Lords

3 contributions
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Davies for his support. I am also grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for his contribution. In re...
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My Lords, Amendment 143 is intended to provide a tougher remedy for breach of the obligation, which is a very modest one, to consult in cases of colle...
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