Research Briefing
Debate on 5 October 2010: The charitable sector and civil society. LLN 2010/020
Debate on 5 October 2010: The charitable sector and civil society. House of Lords Library Note 2010/020
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Research Briefing
Crime and Security Bill (HL Bill 45 of 2009–10). LLN 2010/010
Crime and Security Bill (HL Bill 45 of 2009–10) The Crime and Security Bill is wide-ranging. It contains provisions to reduce the reporting requirements on the police when they stop and search individuals; to set out a statutory framework for the retention and destruction of biometric material, including DNA data; to provide the police with the power to issue “go” notices to alleged perpetrators of domestic violence; to extend injunctions for gang-related violence to 14-17 year-olds; to require courts to make parenting orders when a young person breaches an ASBO; to introduce a licensing scheme for wheel-clamping businesses; to create a new criminal offence of possessing a mobile phone in prison; to create a new offence of failing to take reasonable precautions to prevent a person under 18 from having unauthorised access to an air weapon; to compensate the victims of overseas terrorism; to enable licensing authorities to restrict the sale of alcohol between 3am and 6am; and to give the police new powers to search a person subject to a control order. The Bill has completed its passage through the House of Commons and is due for a second reading debate in the House of Lords on 29th March 2010. This House of Lords Library Note focuses on the debates on the retention and destruction of DNA data on the National DNA Database. It also gives brief details of the other parts of the Bill that were discussed at report stage in the Commons.
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Research Briefing
Equality Bill (HL Bill 20 of 2009-10). LLN 2009/012
Equality Bill. House of Lords Library Note 2009/012
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Research Briefing
The Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords (Updated November 2009). LLN 2009/010
The Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords (Updated November 2009). House of Lords Library Note 2009/010 From 1st October 2009 the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords was transferred to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. This Library Note gives an account of the history of the appellate jurisdiction, its functioning in practice and describes the Supreme Court.
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Research Briefing
History of the House of Lords Library. LLN 2009/005
History of the House of Lords Library. House of Lords Library Note 2009/005
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Research Briefing
Coroners and Justice Bill (HL Bill 33 of 2008-09). LLN 2009/004
Coroners and Justice Bill. House of Lords Library Note 2009/004
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Research Briefing
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (HL Bill 16, 2007-08). LLN 2008/001
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill. House of Lords Library Note 2008/001
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Research Briefing
The appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords (updated November 2007). LLN 2007/008
The appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords. House of Lords Library Note 2007/008.
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Research Briefing
Serious Crime Bill (HL Bill 27, 2006-07). LLN 2007/001
Serious Crime Bill. House of Lords Library Note 2007/001
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