HC Deb 02 December 1998 vol 321 cc173-6W
Mr. Ben Chapman

To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department what responses the Government have received to their consultation paper, Rights of Audience and Rights to Conduct Litigation in England and Wales: the Way Ahead. [62353]

Mr. Hoon

The Government received 100 responses to the consultation paper. Of these 64 were in favour of the Government's proposals, 12 were opposed, 11 were neutral or did not comment, and 13 were mixed. Copies of the responses have today been placed in the Libraries of both Houses, and the Supreme Court Library, with the exception of 6 responses which were made in confidence. The responses were carefully analysed and taken into account in the development of our proposals on rights of audience which are contained in the Modernising Justice White Paper published today.

The Respondents are listed (those who responded in confidence are not listed):

  • Those involved in the current statutory procedure:
    • Lord Justice Potter, Chairman, on behalf of ACLEC
    • The Director General of Fair Trading
    • Professor Lee Bridges (member of ACLEC)
  • The Judiciary
    • The Lords Justices of Appeal
    • The Justices of the High Court
    • The Council of HM Circuit Judges
    • The Association of District Judges
    • The Lord Ackner Lord Justice Buxton
    • Mr. Justice Holland
    • Mr. Justice Sedley
    • Mr. Justice Carnwath
    • Mr. Justice Lloyd
    • HH John Gower QC
  • Members of Parliament
    • Austin Mitchell MP
  • The Bar
    • The General Council of the Bar
    • The Council of the Inns of Court
    • The Bar Association for Commerce, Finance and Industry
    • The Employed and Non-Practising Bar Association
    • The London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association
    • The Official Referees Bar Association
    • The Personal Injuries Bar Association
    • The South Eastern Circuit
    • The North Eastern Circuit
  • Barristers in private practice, or unspecified
    • David Blunt QC
    • Martin Edwards
    • Nicholas Forwood QC
    • Richard King
    • Stuart Lovering
    • Liam Murchin
    • Chris Purnell
    • Alec Samuels
    • Robert Spicer
    • Robert Wright QC
  • Employed or non-practising barristers
    • James Birkin
    • Edward Bowles (Crown Prosecutor)
    • Robert Christie Angela Delbourgo
    • Richard Hill Keith Loney
    • Anne Moore-Williams (Law Commission)
    • Jeremy White
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  • Solicitors
    • The Law Society
    • The Law Society Group for Solicitors with Disabilities
    • The London Solicitors Litigation Association
    • The Solicitors' Association of Higher Court Advocates
    • The Young Solicitors' Group and the Trainee Solicitors Group
    • The London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association
  • Solicitors' Firms
    • Clifford Chance
    • Geoffrey Parker Bourne
    • Herbert Smith
    • Lovell White Durrant
    • Norton Rose Slaughter and May
    • Thompsons
    • White Dalton
  • Individual Solicitors
    • Christopher Bright (Linklaters)
    • Hardeep Singh Nahal (Herbert Smith)
    • Gary Summers (Magrath and Co.)
  • Legal Executives
    • The Institute of Legal Executives
  • Individual Legal Executives
    • Miss C. Abbs
    • Stuart Blake
    • Jeremy Chaplin
  • Private Individuals
    • Marion Heath
    • Arthur Oakes
    • John Randall
    • Anthony Zachary
  • Companies employing lawyers
    • James R. Knowles
    • KPMG Tax Advisers
  • Teachers of Law
    • Committee of Heads of University Law Schools (Professor S.H. Bailey)
    • Nottingham Law School (Professor Peter Jones and Professor Philip Knott)
    • The Association of Law Teachers (John Hodgson)
    • The College of Law (Professor Nigel Savage)
    • Inns of Court School of Law (Susan Blake)
    • Alistair Kelman
    • Alan Taylor
  • Legal Organisations
    • The Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors
    • The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
    • The British Legal Association
    • The Civil Court Users Association
    • The Crown Prosecution Service
    • The Justices' Clerks' Society
    • The Legal Action Group
    • The Legal Services Ombudsman
  • Other Organisations and Bodies
    • The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents
    • The Consumers' Association
    • The Institute of Chartered Accountants
    • The Institute of Credit Management
    • The Joint Committee for Ethnic Minorities in Wales
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    • The Metropolitan Police
    • The National Federation of Consumer Groups
    • The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
    • The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
    • The Trades Union Congress.