Lord Hendy
The Lord Hendy KC
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 14 October 2019
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Employment Rights Bill
22/07/2025 • Lords
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...
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
22/07/2025 • Lords
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...
Universal Credit Bill
21/07/2025 • Lords
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...
Employment Rights Bill
20/07/2025 • Lords
I do not really recognise the workplace that the noble Baroness describes. The fact of the matter is that only some—
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
15/07/2025 • Lords
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...
Employment Rights Bill
23/06/2025 • Lords
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...
Employment Rights Bill
09/06/2025 • Lords
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...
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
09/06/2025 • Lords
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...
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
04/06/2025 • Lords
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...
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
02/06/2025 • Lords
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...
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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