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Viscount Hailsham

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 March 2025

Debate

Conduct Committee

Contribution

Leave out “agreed to” and insert “referred back to the Committee with an instruction that, in place of paragraph 38, the Committee bring forward proposals giving effect to the following: that the facts and the recommended sanction should be determined by an independent tribunal; that the member should at all times be entitled to legal or other representation; and that the representative should be entitled to cross-examine witnesses and make submissions.”

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