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2002-03
729
Workload Of The Lord Chancellor
Austin Mitchell
2003-02-12
That this House, seeing that the office of the Lord Chancellor requires the incumbent to function under strain with too heavy a work burden and perform too many roles and carry out too many jobs for any one person, however hard working, brilliant or highly paid, urges the Government to lighten the enormous load by creating a Ministry of Justice with a Minister in the Commons to modernise justice and make the legal system answerable to Parliament, by setting up a new Supreme Court and an independent Judical Appointment Commission to appoint all members of the judiciary, and by making the Lord Chief Justice the non-political head of the judiciary, thus setting the Lord Chancellor free to perform the most demanding job, that of presiding over the House of Lords.
Austin Mitchell
2003-02-12
Proposed
Great Grimsby
Labour
Robert Marshall-Andrews
2003-02-12
Signed
Medway
Labour
Frank Field
2003-02-12
Signed
Birkenhead
Labour
Mark Fisher
2003-02-12
Signed
Stoke-on-Trent Central
Labour
Vera Baird
2003-02-12
Signed
Redcar
Labour
David Drew
2003-02-13
Signed
Stroud
Labour Co-operative
Brian White
2003-02-13
Signed
North East Milton Keynes
Labour
Paul Tyler
2003-02-13
Signed
North Cornwall
Liberal Democrat
Harry Barnes
2003-02-13
Signed
North East Derbyshire
Labour
Andrew Dismore
2003-02-13
Signed
Hendon
Labour
Terry Davis
2003-02-13
Signed
Birmingham, Hodge Hill
Labour
Jeremy Corbyn
2003-02-13
Signed
Islington North
Labour
Michael Clapham
2003-02-13
Signed
Barnsley West & Penistone
Labour
Vincent Cable
2003-02-13
Signed
Twickenham
Liberal Democrat
Alice Mahon
2003-02-13
Signed
Halifax
Labour
Lynne Jones
2003-02-13
Signed
Birmingham, Selly Oak
Labour
Kelvin Hopkins
2003-02-13
Signed
Luton North
Labour
Paul Holmes
2003-02-13
Signed
Chesterfield
Liberal Democrat
Gordon Prentice
2003-02-13
Signed
Pendle
Labour
Ann Clwyd
2003-02-13
Signed
Cynon Valley
Labour
Rudi Vis
2003-02-24
Signed
Finchley & Golders Green
Labour
Neil Gerrard
2003-02-24
Signed
Walthamstow
Labour
John McDonnell
2003-02-24
Signed
Hayes & Harlington
Labour
Elfyn Llwyd
2003-02-25
Signed
Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Plaid Cymru
John Cryer
2003-02-27
Signed
Hornchurch
Labour
David Marshall
2003-02-28
Signed
Glasgow, Shettleston
Labour
Andy King
2003-03-04
Signed
Rugby & Kenilworth
Labour
Rob Marris
2003-03-06
Signed
Wolverhampton South West
Labour
Bill Etherington
2003-03-12
Signed
Sunderland North
Labour
Doug Naysmith
2003-03-13
Signed
Bristol North West
Labour Co-operative
Annabelle Ewing
2003-03-13
Signed
Perth
Scottish National Party
Alan Simpson
2003-03-20
Signed
Nottingham South
Labour
Nigel Jones
2003-04-02
Signed
Cheltenham
Liberal Democrat