The Government has a number of lengthy bills progressing through Parliament which will fall in their entirety if they aren’t completed by Prorogation in the second week of November. A few recently introduced Bills will be ‘carried over’ but most must be done and dusted or they fall. The Coroners and Justice Bill has…
Both Houses rise for the summer recess on 21 July. We are going to be very busy over the next couple of weeks. Take next week: on Monday, we have the Policing and Crime Bill (its third day in committee); on Tuesday, the Coroners and Justice Bill (its fifth day in committee); on Wednesday, the Second Reading…
A latish evening last night in the Coroners and Justice Bill Committee in the Chamber. We finally got round to the homicide parts of the bill, which include various changes in the criteria for the partial defence of diminished responsibility. I had a number of amendments to speak to and was obliged therefore to participate…
