Member

There are a number of other amendments in the group; I will address each in turn. Amendment 1 was moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, and was supported by the noble Lord, Lord Pannick. It seeks to change the legal test for issuing a respect order so that the court would need to consider it “necessary and proportionate”, rather than “just and convenient”, to issue it. This was raised in Committee. I made it clear that the current “just and convenient” language mirrors the test in the current civil injunction regime under the 2014 Act, which the respect order in part replaces. The legislation was enacted by the coalition Government. The noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, may well have been in the House when that was done. The Bill mirrors that language completely. Housing injunctions and youth injunctions will remain operational under the 2014 Act. The “just and convenient” test will be consistent across these orders and the respect orders, which we consider fair and proper.