Author Archives: Baroness Deech

And when did you last see your father?

Baroness Deech 04/02/2012 – 8:25 am

There have been conflicting stories in the press this week about how and whether the government intends to change the law in order to ensure that both parents see more of their children after divorce.  Some reports said that there would be introduced a legal presumption of equally shared parenting; others that it would not [...]

Banking it

Baroness Deech 27/01/2012 – 5:18 pm

The solution to the dilemma of the banker’s bonus is obvious.  Mr. Hester should take it, and give it to charity.  That way the contract he seems to have had with RBS is fulfilled; honour is preserved; and the money goes back to the people for good purposes. The chair of RBS and of the [...]

Against my Will

Baroness Deech 26/01/2012 – 3:34 pm

The Inheritance (Cohabitants) Bill received its first reading on the 12th January.  It is based on a Law Commission Report, Law Com no. 331 (2011) http://www.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission/docs/lc331_intestacy_report.pdf which, after consultation, recommended that the law be changed so that cohabitants would have an automatic claim to the property of their partner if he or she died intestate, provided [...]

Ironic Lady: the Film

Baroness Deech 10/01/2012 – 10:27 am

I have just watched The Iron Lady, a film about Baroness Thatcher’s life.  It does not deal with her period in the House of Lords at all, but focuses on her rise to, and tenure of the position of the first and, so far, the only female Prime Minister of this country.  In most ways, [...]

Shopping at Christmas

Baroness Deech 18/12/2011 – 4:46 pm

Mary Portas, shopping guru, has delivered to the Prime Minister a review of the state of our high streets and town centres.  I was able to get a copy from the Printed Paper Office of the Lords.  I noticed this weekend that there are considerably fewer people out shopping on my own local high street [...]