There is to be a debate on Wednesday in the Lords on the Browne Review of Higher Education. I fear I will not be able to participate, and 26 Lords have already signed up to speak. If I were to contribute, it would be along the following lines. I do not agree with the totally…
On Monday I led a debate in the Lords about the reform of financial provision on divorce. I called for change, as I have done for 30 years, of a law which is widely regarded as unfair, uncertain and expensive. Couples ought to know with some certainty what are the principles that will govern the…
We are all against unnecessary regulation and everyone seems to agree that the government is right to carry out a cull of quangos. But there is one that is different. The Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority is apparently on the hit list, and I am asking a question about it on Wednesday. It was a…
I returned recently from a legal conference in S Africa about the Rule of Law, attended by equal numbers of British and S African lawyers and judges. The legal profession in S Africa is of the highest quality; even at the height of apartheid their judges bravely defended human rights (although not always). British law students…
Most parliamentarians probably chose to hear the Pope speak at the event in Westminster Hall on Friday 17th. I thought this gathering would be too large and went instead to an interreligious meeting to hear him speak at St Mary’s College Twickenham. There were politicians and business people in the audience too, of not more than about 100. His…
