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Public Bill Committee: 8 September 2011                  

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(ii)    

the resources of the proposed claimant or claimants are

 

significantly less than those of the proposed defendant or

 

defendants; and

 

(iii)    

absent the provisions of this subsection there would be a

 

significant risk that the proposed claimant or claimants

 

would be unable to secure effective legal representation

 

in England or Wales.

 

(9)    

In subsection (8) ‘developing country’ means a country whose per capita

 

gross national income was less than 50 per cent. of the per capita gross

 

national income of the United Kingdom in the year (or if more than one

 

year, the first year) in which the relevant tort is alleged to have been

 

committed.”.

 

(2B)    

In section 120(4) of that Act (regulations and orders subject to parliamentary

 

approval) after the amendment made by subsection (5) of this section, insert

 

“58A(8)”.’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

196

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

proceedings which include a claim for damages or other relief in relation to an act

 

in the nature of an interference with personal information or privacy.’.

 

Karl Turner

 

198

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

proceedings which include a claim for damages for death or for physical or

 

psychological injury resulting from breach of any duty owed by an employer to

 

an employee.’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

200

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

proceedings which include a claim for damages for death or for physical or

 

psychological injury resulting from any breach of duty or trespass to the person.’.

 

Kate Green

 

202

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

proceedings which include a claim for damages for physical or psychological

 

disease or illness resulting from any breach of duty or trespass to the person.’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

204

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

proceedings which include a claim for damages for loss resulting from breach of

 

any duty to exercise professional care or skill.’.

 
 

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Mr Andy Slaughter

 

206

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

proceedings which include a money claim for the benefit of the estate or creditors

 

of an insolvent body corporate or partnership against persons concerned (or

 

formerly concerned) in its management.’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

208

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

clinical negligence proceedings (within the meaning of section 58C).’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

210

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

proceedings which include a claim for judicial review of a decision or of a failure

 

to decide by a public body.’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

212

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

proceedings in which—

 

(a)    

the parties are businesses, and

 

(b)    

one of those parties is a business which is a sole trader, partnership or

 

limited liability private company whose turnover is less than 20 per cent.

 

of the other or another party, and

 

(c)    

the success fee is part of a conditional fee agreement made by that party.’.

 

Karl Turner

 

214

 

Clause  41,  page  29,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in relation to

 

proceedings in which—

 

(a)    

one party is an individual who has purchased, commissioned or ordered

 

goods or services from the other party, and

 

(b)    

the other party is in business to provide such goods or services, and

 

(c)    

the success fee is part of a conditional fee agreement made by the party

 

referred to at (a) above.’.

 

 

Mr Jonathan Djanogly

 

188

 

Clause  42,  page  30,  line  27,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

In section 120(4) of that Act (regulations and orders subject to parliamentary

 

approval) for “58AA” substitute “58AA(4)”.’.

 
 

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Mr Jonathan Djanogly

 

189

 

Clause  42,  page  30,  line  28,  leave out ‘this section’ and insert ‘subsections (1) to

 

(11)’.

 

 

Kate Green

 

193

 

Clause  43,  page  30,  line  31,  leave out subsection (1) and insert—

 

‘(1)    

In the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, after section 58B insert—

 

“58C  

Recovery of insurance premiums by way of costs

 

(1)    

A costs order made in favour of a party to proceedings who has taken out

 

a costs insurance policy may not include provision requiring the payment

 

of an amount in respect of all or part of the premium of the policy,

 

unless—

 

(a)    

the party is one to whom section 58A(8) applies; or

 

(b)    

such provision is permitted by regulations under subsection

 

(2).”’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

197

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section do not apply in relation to a costs order

 

made in favour of a party to proceedings which include a claim for damages or

 

other relief in relation to an act in the nature of an interference with personal

 

information or privacy.’.

 

Karl Turner

 

199

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section do not apply in relation to a costs order

 

made in favour of a party to proceedings which include a claim for death or for

 

physical or psychological injury resulting from breach of any duty owed by an

 

employer to an employee.’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

201

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section do not apply in relation to a costs order

 

made in favour of a party to proceedings which include a claim for damages for

 

death or for physical or psychological injury resulting from any breach of duty or

 

trespass to the person.’.

 

Kate Green

 

203

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section do not apply in relation to a costs order

 

made in favour of a party to proceedings which include a claim for damages for

 

physical or psychological disease or illness resulting from any breach of duty or

 

trespass to the person.’.

 
 

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Mr Andy Slaughter

 

205

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section do not apply in relation to a costs order

 

made in favour of a party to proceedings which include a claim for damages for

 

loss resulting from breach of any duty to exercise professional care or skill.’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

207

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section do not apply in relation to a costs order

 

made in favour of a party to proceedings which include a money claim for the

 

benefit of the estate or creditors of an insolvent body corporate or partnership

 

against persons concerned (or formerly concerned) in its management.’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

209

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section, other than the definitions of “clinical

 

negligence”, “clinical negligence proceedings” and “proceedings” which

 

subsection (2) inserts into the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, do not apply

 

in relation to a costs order made in favour of a party to clinical negligence

 

proceedings (as so defined).’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

211

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section do not apply in relation to a costs order

 

made in favour of a party to proceedings which include a claim for judicial review

 

of a decision or of a failure to decide by a public body.’.

 

Mr Andy Slaughter

 

213

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section do not apply in relation to a costs order

 

made in favour of a party to proceedings where—

 

(a)    

both parties are businesses, and

 

(b)    

the receiving party is a business whose turnover is less than 20 per cent.

 

of that of the paying party and the receiving party is a sole trader,

 

partnership or limited liability private company.’.

 

Karl Turner

 

215

 

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

The amendments made by this section do not apply in relation to a costs order

 

made in favour of a party to proceedings where—

 

(a)    

the receiving party is an individual who has purchased, commissioned or

 

ordered goods or services from the other party, and

 

(b)    

the paying party is in business to provide such goods or services.’.

 

 
 

Public Bill Committee: 8 September 2011                  

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Karl Turner

 

228

 

Page  38,  line  25,  leave out Clause 52.

 

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

116

 

Schedule  6,  page  142,  line  18,  leave out from ‘proceedings’ to ‘under’ and insert

 

‘in the Crown Court including an appeal’.

 

 

Mr Jonathan Djanogly

 

59

 

Schedule  7,  page  153,  line  36,  leave out ‘33B’ and insert ‘33B(1)(d)’.

 

 

Mr Jonathan Djanogly

 

243

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  53,  page  38,  line  36,  at end insert—

 

‘(2)    

In section 175 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (service compensation orders), after

 

subsection (7) insert—

 

“(7A)    

The court must consider making a service compensation order in any case

 

where it has power to do so.”’.

 

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

267

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  54,  page  39,  line  17,  leave out paragraph (4) and insert—

 

‘(4)    

If the offender is not present when sentence is passed, subsection (3) takes effect

 

as if the words “to the offender” were omitted.

 

(4A)    

The court must provide written versions of any statement given under subsection

 

(2) and any explanation given under subsection (3).

 

(4B)    

Copies of the documents mentioned in subsection (4B) above must be given (if

 

the relevant person is in court when sentence is passed) or sent by post (if the

 

relevant person is not in court when sentence is passed) to—

 

(a)    

the offender;

 

(b)    

the offender’s legal representative;

 

(c)    

the victim(s) of the offence;

 

(d)    

family member(s) and/or representative(s) of the victim(s) of the offence;

 

(e)    

the Crown Prosecution Service;

 

(f)    

any co-defendant convicted in the case, whether or not at the same trial/

 

hearing;

 

(g)    

the legal representative of any person in (vi) above;

 
 

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(h)    

the probation service or, if the offender is under 18 years of age, the youth

 

offending team;

 

(i)    

if the offender is under 18 years of age, the offender’s parent/guardian;

 

(j)    

representatives of the media.

 

(4C)    

The duty in subsection (4B) is subject to any reporting restrictions in force in the

 

case.

 

(4D)    

Where the offender is aged under 18, no details tending to identify him may be

 

included in the written reasons provided under subsection (4B)(j).’.

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

268

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  54,  page  39,  line  22,  leave out ‘(8)’ and insert ‘(9)’.

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

269

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  54,  page  39,  line  42,  leave out sub-paragraph (b).

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

270

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  54,  page  39,  line  43,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

Where the court imposes a sentence that may only be imposed in the offender’s

 

case if the court is of the opinion mentioned in—

 

(a)    

section 148(1) of this Act (community sentence), or

 

(b)    

section 152(2) of this Act (discretionary custodial sentence),

 

    

the court must state why it is of that opinion.’.

 

Mr Jonathan Djanogly

 

244

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  54,  page  40,  line  9,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

In the Armed Forces Act 2006—

 

(a)    

in section 252 (duty to give reasons and explain sentence), omit

 

subsection (2);

 

(b)    

in section 253 (duties in complying with section 252), omit subsections

 

(1)(a), (c) and (d) and (2)(b) and (d) to (h).’.

 

Mr Jonathan Djanogly

 

245

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  54,  page  40,  line  13,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

paragraph 24 of Schedule 25 to that Act;’.

 

 

Mr Jonathan Djanogly

 

246

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  56,  page  42,  line  9,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

In that paragraph, after sub-paragraph (3A) insert—

 

“(3B)  

A fine imposed under sub-paragraph (1)(aa) is to be treated, for the

 

purposes of any enactment, as being a sum adjudged to be paid by a

 

conviction.”’.

 
 

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Mr Jonathan Djanogly

 

247

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  56,  page  42,  line  18,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

In that paragraph, after sub-paragraph (3A) insert—

 

“(3B)  

A fine imposed under sub-paragraph (1)(aa) is to be treated, for the

 

purposes of any enactment, as being a sum adjudged to be paid by a

 

conviction.”’.

 

 

Mr Jonathan Djanogly

 

248

 

Parliamentary Star    

Schedule  8,  page  160,  line  14,  at end insert—

 

‘Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52)

 

            

The Armed Forces Act 2006 is amended as follows.

 

    (1)  

Section 200 (suspended sentence orders with or without community

 

requirements) is amended as follows.

 

      (2)  

In the heading omit “with or without community requirements”.

 

      (3)  

Omit subsections (1) to (4) (power of relevant service court to make suspended

 

sentence order with or without community requirements, and meanings of

 

those terms).

 

      (4)  

In subsection (5) (modification of section 189(1) of the Criminal Justice Act

 

2003 in its application to a relevant service court)—

 

(a)    

for “(b)(ii)” substitute “(a)”,

 

(b)    

for “the end of sub-paragraph (ii)” substitute ““imprisonment),””, and

 

(c)    

in the words treated as substituted, for “(a)” substitute “(i)” and for

 

“(b)” substitute “(ii)”.

 

      (5)  

After subsection (6) insert—

 

“(7)    

In this Chapter “a suspended sentence order with community

 

requirements” means a suspended sentence order that imposes one or

 

more community requirements within the meaning of section

 

189(7)(c) of the 2003 Act.”

 

            

Omit section 201 (provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 that do not

 

apply to suspended sentence orders without community requirements).

 

            

In section 207 (definitions for purposes of Chapter 4 of Part 8)—

 

(a)    

in the definition of “suspended sentence order with community

 

requirements” for “200(3)” substitute “200(7)”, and

 

(b)    

omit the definition of “suspended sentence order without community

 

requirements”.

 

    (1)  

Schedule 7 (suspended prison sentence: further conviction or breach of

 

requirement) is amended as follows.

 

      (2)  

For the heading before paragraph 1 substitute “Modifications of Part 2 of

 

Schedule 12 to the 2003 Act”.

 

      (3)  

In paragraph 1 (modifications of Part 2 of Schedule 12 to the Criminal Justice

 

Act 2003 in case of suspended sentence orders with community requirements)

 

omit “with community requirements”.

 
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