Compensation Bill [HL] — 7 Mar 2006 at 17:08

Baroness Rendell of Babergh voted with the majority (Not-Content).

moved Amendment No. 5:

After Clause 1, insert the following new clause-

"INTERPRETATION OF PART 1

In considering for the purposes of this Part whether the defendant should have taken particular steps to meet a standard of care, a court shall have particular regard to whether the claimant-

(a) entered onto land or into premises with the intention of committing an offence, or

(b) otherwise willingly accepted a risk as his (the question whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another)."

On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 5) shall be agreed to?

Their Lordships divided: Contents, 109; Not-Contents, 147.

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (Not-Content)Minority (Content)Turnout
Con0 78 (+2 tell)38.1%
Crossbench3 2314.3%
Independent Labour0 1100.0%
Lab140 (+2 tell) 067.0%
LDem0 11.4%
Total:143 10336.8%

Rebel Voters - sorted by party

Lords for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible lord who could have voted in this division

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NamePartyVote
Lord Craig of RadleyCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Elystan-Morgan Crossbenchno
Lord Robertson of Port EllenCrossbenchno
Viscount Slim Crossbench (front bench)no

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