European Union - Second Report

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 19 December 2006.

CONTENTS

Terms of Reference

Foreword

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Current Position—alternative proposals in the Council

The Austrian Presidency draft Framework Decision

The right to information

The right to legal assistance

The right to legal assistance free of charge

The right to interpretation

The right to translation of documents of the procedure

The Political Resolution

The current position of negotiations  

Chapter 3: The Evolving UK Position

The Government's original view

Current Government position on the Framework Decision

General and vague rights

Overlap with the European Convention on Human Rights

Extent of rights under the Framework Decision

Another layer, another player

Government support for practical measures

The scope for a future Framework Decision

Government support for the Hague Programme

Appendix 1: Sub-Committee E (Law and Institutions)

Appendix 2: Reports

Recent Reports from Sub-Committee E

ORAL EVIDENCE
25 October 2006

The Rt Hon The Lord Goldsmith QC, Attorney General,
Mr Mark de Pulford, Better Trials Unit, Office for Criminal Justice Reform;
Ms Melissa Bullen, Legal Adviser's Branch, and Ms Claire Fielder,
International Directorate, Home Office

Supplementary letter dated 15 November 2006 from the
Rt Hon The Lord Goldsmith QC, Attorney General, to Lord Grenfell, Chairman of the European Union Committee    10

NOTE: References in the text of the Report are as follows:

(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence

(p) refers to a page of the Report or Appendices, or to a page of evidence

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