Sentences with phrase «then justice secretary»

«I genuinely believe «access to justice» is the hallmark of a civilised society,» wrote the then justice secretary Ken Clarke as he introduced his legal aid reforms.

Ken Clarke, the then justice secretary, suggested that his front - bench colleague, Mrs May, «should really address her researchers and advisers very severely for assuring her that a complete nonsense example in her speech was true».

The Prime Minister has form of course: in 2011, when she was Home Secretary, she tried to dismantle the SFO, but was thwarted by her cabinet colleagues, most notably Ken Clarke, who was the then Justice Secretary — and reportedly tried to revive the plan in 2014.

Delving into the detail of the extraordinary morning when Gove revealed he would run, Gimson says the then justice secretary never even rang Johnson to tell him he was deserting him.

When the charge was suspended by the then Justice Secretary Michael Gove in December 2015, Howard League Chief Executive Frances Crook called the decision a «victory for justice».

Not exact matches

But then a few years ago Chris Grayling became justice secretary and chaos ensued.

«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the shadow Secretary of State for Justice and is now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».

The justice secretary was then forced to appear on Sky News, as the media outrage over the plans grew.

The comments came after the justice secretary endured a bruising encounter on BBC Radio 5 Live with a rape victim and then made several misjudged comments to Sky News in which he mentioned «serious» rape.

The delegation of Parliamentarians included Lord Stewart Wood, former foreign policy adviser to both Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, then Shadow Minister for Human Rights Andy Slaughter, Shadow Minister for International Development Imran Hussain, current Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon MP, current Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald MP and Wes Streeting MP.

he delegation of Parliamentarians included Lord Stewart Wood, former foreign policy adviser to both Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, then Shadow Minister for Human Rights Andy Slaughter, Shadow Minister for International Development Imran Hussain, current Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon MP, current Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald MP and Wes Streeting MP.

In 2016 - 17, the organisation's paying membership was steady, at 26 MPs, but of those, nine had jobs in government including Michael Gove, then Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling, then Leader of the House, and Sajid Javid, then Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Meanwhile, in another document, the Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke SAN while responding to a request by the then Secretary General of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said that the CCT chairman can not be removed from by a mere fiat of the executive arm of the government.

The justice secretary states: «It seems to me that if you've got basic common sense plus enthusiasm amongst Leave campaigners, versus a sense of establishment entitlement plus a lack of enthusiasm on the Remain side, then there's no reason to believe that Remain are on course to win.

«Chris Grayling was just so truly awful [as justice secretary] that of course it is better to have Gove than Grayling, but if what Gove does is emollient words with no change in the funding policies, then maybe it was better to see the beast as it was truly was than nice phrases and words wrapping it all up.»

«When the government cancelled G4S and Serco's electronic tagging contracts in late 2013, the then - justice secretary, Chris Grayling, promised «a fresh start for electronic monitoring»,» Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studiesjustice secretary, Chris Grayling, promised «a fresh start for electronic monitoring»,» Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice StudiesJustice Studies, said.

Stuart must have winced then, when she opened Saturday's Daily Mail to see Gove's sinister piece on EU expansion that had the justice secretary's name on it but could have been penned by Farage himself.

At the time Green was a Conservative MP but he would later become minister for policing, criminal justice and victims and then work and pensions secretary.

«Yobs are putting aside cash to pay spot fines for drunkenness and violence, knowing they can then carry on offending, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling warns today.

Two weeks ago at PMQs Philip Davies, the Tory MP for Shipley, protested to David Cameron about justice secretary Kenneth Clarke's then rather vague comments about reducing prisoner numbers:

Last year, then — Justice Secretary Jack Straw set up a libel working group whose members included the head of the U.K.'s Medical Research Council.

The justices must therefore deal with whether or not they are «satisfied that the payments in question have become payable» (s 33 (3)-RRB-; and if the liable person says they have been paid, or that some of the alleged arrears are not «payable» (eg because the secretary of state has got the calculation of the arrears wrong, or a child is no longer a qualifying child) then the justices must hear evidence.

In 2014 I was contacted by Major General John Moore - Bick CBE DL, the then General Secretary of the Forces Pension Society in connection with the Society's «Justice For Widows» campaign.

It was the family lawyers — Mr Justice Wall (as he then was), Lord Justice Ward and Baroness Hale — who would have put children's rights before other legal principles (see R (Kehoe) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2005] UKHL 48, [2005] 4 All ER 905).

There then followed a hunt for the justice secretary to put the Brexiteer sections of the media back in their place.

«Goodness knows, things could hardly get worse, but the election means that nothing will happen for weeks and then a new justice secretary will want to have a think,» she blogged.

The judgment of Lord Justice Rimer in the instant case is a full one, tracing the twists and turns in the case law, from the fons et origo on one - man companies (Lee v Lee's Air Farming [1961] AC 12, [1960] 3 All ER 420), through the policy - driven phase (that the secretary of state's guarantee was, in effect, meant only for «real» employees) as exemplified in Buchan v SSE [1997] IRLR 80, and then to SSTI v Bottrill [2000] 1 All ER 915, [1999] IRLR 326, where the Court of Appeal had not followed Buchan and had instead held that it was a question of fact, but in such a way as (the Court of Appeal now accepted) had led to uncertainty of application.

In 2013, Chris Grayling, the then Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, relying upon that power, made the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013 (the «Fees Order»).

Underhill J considered the observations of Lady Justice Hale (as she then was) in R v Secretary of State for Health, ex parte C [2000] 1 FLR 627, [2000] All ER (D) 215 including the following principles which she highlighted:

This was underlined by a decision of the Administrative Court on 18 May 2007 where Ruth Kelly, the then secretary of state for communities and local government, was told by Mr Justice Stanley Burnton to think again about a decision made on her behalf by Jim Fitzpatrick MP, a Parliamentary under secretary of state when he had overturned certain disciplinary decisions of a fire authority (see R (London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2007] EWHC 1176 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 310 (Msecretary of state for communities and local government, was told by Mr Justice Stanley Burnton to think again about a decision made on her behalf by Jim Fitzpatrick MP, a Parliamentary under secretary of state when he had overturned certain disciplinary decisions of a fire authority (see R (London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2007] EWHC 1176 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 310 (Msecretary of state when he had overturned certain disciplinary decisions of a fire authority (see R (London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2007] EWHC 1176 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 310 (MSecretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2007] EWHC 1176 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 310 (May)-RRB-.