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Viscount Hailsham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 July 2025

Debate

Afghanistan

Contribution

My Lords, yesterday, the Secretary of State for Defence described the super-injunction as “unprecedented, uncomfortable and, in many ways, unconscionable”. —[Official Report, Commons, 15/7/25; col. 160.] Given that, does the Minister agree that if, in the future, super-injunctions are sought, or their renewal is sought, the application will be made only with the consent of not just the relevant Secretary of State but the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney-General?

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