Not exact matches
«The breadth
of the draft bill as it stands appears to be overkill and is much wider than the specific needs identified by the law enforcement agencies,»
committee chair Lord Blencathra said.
Lord Smith
of Kelvin's task
of steering the commission for more Scottish devolution is set to a timescale that makes his job
chairing the organising
committee of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games look like...
A 2004 draft mental health bill had to be scrapped because
of the overwhelming opposition, and last night Liberal Democrat peer
Lord Carlile, who
chaired the scrutiny
committee into that bill, warned the new legislation faced a similar fate.
10:15 - Sun editor Dominic Mohan and Press Complaints Commission
chair Lord Hunt
of Wirral, before joint
committee on privacy and injunctions, on: privacy and injunctions
Royall's proposals will be considered by the Lords privileges
committee,
chaired by
Lord Brabazon
of Tara.
Last week's debate on this controversy, sponsored by former Commons Speaker Baroness Boothroyd, noted a letter from David Cameron to the
Chair of the Association
of Conservative Peers
Lord MacGregor
of Pulham Market (also quoted on page 5
of the Constitution
Committee report).
In the spring, a House
of Lords select
committee chaired by
Lord Dainton will report on the training
of forensic scientists.
The full quote:» Three investigations
of the alleged scientific misconduct
of the Climate Research Unit at the University
of East Anglia — one by the UK House
of Commons Science and Technology
Committee, a second by the Scientific Assessment Panel
of the Royal Society,
chaired by
Lord Oxburgh, and the latest by the Independent Climate Change E-mails Review,
chaired by Sir Muir Russell — have confirmed what climate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their colleagues.
-LSB-...] A report by the
committee,
chaired by
Lord Krebs, says CSAs must sit on the boards
of their departments, be consulted «early and throughout» policymaking, have a right
of access to ministers, and crucially be required to sign - off on fresh policies.
They chose
Lord Oxburgh, seriously biased Chairman
of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association as
chair, identified the few published articles they would consider, and selected a
committee of people openly committed to the «official» science.
For example, on page 19
of his brief below dated January 18, 2013, he cites the international panel
chaired by the eminent scientist
Lord Oxburgh, FRS as one
of the bodies that «exonerated» him, whereas on page 235
of Mann's own book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, he states explicitly that «our own work did not fall within the remit
of the
committee, and the hockey stick was not mentioned in the report.»
This comes in the wake
of what seemed to be a call for movement to be rationed from the Climate Change
Committee chair,
Lord Adair Turner, who gave evidence to the Environmental Audit
Committee last week,
The three separate inquiries - the first by the House
of Commons Science and Technology
Committee, the second,
chaired by
Lord Oxburgh, which looked at whether there had been scientific malpractice, and the third under Sir Muir Russell, into the content
of the emails themselves - all came up with broadly positive conclusions on the behaviour
of the scientists involved, although they were criticised for lack
of statistical rigour and for being less than open with their raw data.
Today, as the changes to the Draft bill stipulated,
Lord Adair Turner
of Ecchinswell, the
chair of the
committee, wrote to the Environment secretary that, as the Independent reported, «The UK should cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent by mid-century».
Take, for example, the Twitter feed
of one mediocrat,
Chair of the UK
Committee on Climate Change,
Lord John Deben, PKA, John Selwyn Gummer, on Twitter.
That this House welcomes the Prime Minister's decision to ask the Shadow
Committee on Climate Change for early advice on the Climate Change Bill to inform the final stages
of debate in Parliament; congratulates the
Committee and its
chair Lord Turner for providing robust advice despite the time pressure; welcomes their recommendation that the United Kingdom should be more ambitious in its target with cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; further welcomes
Lord Turner's further statement that this should include all emissions, including aviation and shipping; and urges all parties to support amendments to incorporate these changes in the Climate Change Bill.
Like
chair of the UK's
Committee on Climate Change, John Selwyn Gummer, AKA «
Lord Deben», Nurse does not:
In December 2015, a
committee that reviewed the civil courts structure in the UK issued a report, written by its
chair Lord Justice Briggs, judge
of the Court
of Appeal and deputy head
of Civil Justice, recommending the formation
of The Online Court, as I wrote about in more detail here.
After months
of hard work on the part
of the Civil Justice Council (CJC) Costs
Committee, its
Chair David Foskett, its secretariat and the statistical experts, Paul Fenn and Neil Rickman, its major recommendations on guideline hourly r ates (GHRs) were rejected by the Master
of the Rolls,
Lord Dyson last week.
Committee chair,
Lord Vallance, says: «We have heard harsh criticism from the private sector
of the way in which the residence and domicile initiative was handled.
The roles that Leslie currently undertakes include that
of Part - Time Road User Charging Adjudicator, Consultant for Bond Solon Training, Consultant for Central Law Training, Tribunal Judge
of the First Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Managing Director
of Independent Investigative Interviewing Limited, Independent Companies House Adjudicator, Independent Member
of the
Lord Chancellor's Advisory
Committee for North East Essex Magistrates Courts, Crown Court Recorder for the South Eastern Circuit, Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), Panel
Chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Conduct and Competence
Committee, Appeals Officer for Community Interest Companies, Tribunal Judge
of the First Tier Tribunal (Special Education Needs and Disability) and Visiting Professional Fellow in Criminal Investigation at University
of Derby.
Led by
Lord Justice Gage, the group includes Mr Justice Pitchford,
chair of the criminal
committee of the Judicial Studies Board; Guy Beringer QC, a senior partner at Allen & Overy; and Christopher Murray, senior partner at Kingsley Napley.
On 28 November, Professor Noel Sharkey,
chair of the International
Committee for Robot Arms Control, addressed a House of Lord's select committee hearing on artificial inte
Committee for Robot Arms Control, addressed a House
of Lord's select
committee hearing on artificial inte
committee hearing on artificial intelligence.