Member

The noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, reminded us of the historic role of our rules-based system. The names of Hartley Shawcross and Maxwell Fyfe immediately sprang to mind, but outside our jurisdiction it was Raphael Lemkin, who had seen more than 40 of his own family murdered during the Holocaust, who gave us the genocide convention. When I was promoting another amendment to another Bill on another occasion, my noble and learned friend Lord Hope of Craighead said that convention, wonderfully inspired though it was to predict, to prevent, to protect and to punish, is no longer fit for purpose. That is the challenge for us today. What more can we do in an incremental way? There is more to be done, and we will take away what the Minister has said and see whether we can come back with something that can be agreed between now and Report.