Lord Sandhurst

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing this order. It forms part of a wider programme of reform to the Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal following the passage of the Renters

I am sorry; I want to finish this and I shall be short. It is, as I have said, a deeply flawed Bill on this grave issue of the administration of death—something completely new to our society. Such a p

There were grave problems with having the judges. As the noble and learned Lord knows, it would have occupied far too much court time. It simply was not practicable to put it into the courts. If it wa

My Lords, the law should be changed. The current law on aiding and abetting suicide does not address the issues the promoters of the Bill undoubtedly seek to address. The structure and detail of the B

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her Amendment 4D. This is likely my last appearance on the Front Bench though not, I anticipate, my last speech in this Chamber. I shall simply say that I have great

My Lords, the Law Commission has identified that an estimated 250,000 sets of ashes have not been collected from funeral directors, leaving them either unburied or unscattered. What consideration has