, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Thank you, Alun, very much. Could I just, then, as we close, in thanking you for coming in front of us today—and it really has been a very informative session—just ask you how you want to keep the wider sector, but also the public and interested parties, up…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Diolch yn fawr. Alun, just before we wrap up this very useful session, is there anything else that you wanted to add to this?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Very interesting. Rhys.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
That's very interesting. And do you see this—? I'm going to bring Rhys in in a moment, but does this reflect a model you would see elsewhere within the UK?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
No, that's fair enough.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Thank you, Peter. Before I hand to Alun, I'm very taken with the relationship of this discussion to some of your opening remarks, where you stressed that very much the law council would want to develop its work as an independent voice from Government, but…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Thank you, Alun. Thank you very much. We've probably got just short of 15 minutes remaining. I wonder if we can move on to the area of the economic importance of the legal sector and what the legal sector can do to actually support the economy as well. I'm…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Alun, are you happy with that? Do you want to go through any other areas as well? If you want to, by all means.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Excellent. Thank you very much. Alun, we'll come to you.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thanks so much for that answer. It takes us into areas that both Rhys and Alun want to explore a little bit further in terms of not only continuing professional development for those within the sector, but also the curriculum and so on…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Well, can I thank you very much for those opening remarks there? Whilst you say that you're making a cautious start, there also seems to be a level of clarity on what your focus on priorities for the next 12 months or so will be. As well as expressing to us…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
So, with those few words just to open the session this afternoon, we're delighted to have in front of us the representatives from the Law Council of Wales. We have Lord Lloyd-Jones, president of the Law Council of Wales; Professor Emyr Lewis, vice-president…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this hybrid meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. Just some housekeeping reminders, first of all. The meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. Now, apart from…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon and welcome, everyone.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Very, very brief indeed. I'm trying to seek an answer to the question I posed before: why is it that, when there was Welsh Labour Government here and a UK Labour Government as well, we saw a million children lifted out of poverty? What is it out of that…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Would the Member acknowledge that, in the 1997 to 2010 Government, with Welsh Labour here and UK Labour at the UK Government, 1 million children were lifted out of absolute poverty—not relative poverty, absolute poverty? Independent figures will show that…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Would the Member give way?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Indeed, I would simply say, Deputy Presiding Officer, oppose the Conservative motion, support the Government motion. The Conservatives are letting our communities down.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Our communities, Darren, have now faced a decade of austerity in the vital public realm and cuts to social security, which have eaten into public services across the UK and impoverished already poor people. From the…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
[Inaudible.]—a minute. Sorry, Deputy Llywydd.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
I think he's gone on a little bit now.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
He's taken a minute already.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
I think the intervention—[Inaudible.]
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
It's an intervention.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities
The premise of this debate today is a Conservative motion that asserts that the Conservative UK Government is failing local communities, or it should be. My communities are great communities. They've been challenged often over many decades, they've bowed…
