European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill — Report (1st Day) — Amendment 14 — 20 Jan 2020 at 19:38

Moved by Lord Mackay of Clashfern

14: Clause 26, page 30, line 20, leave out paragraph (d) and insert-“(d) after subsection (5) insert-“(5A) Where a court or tribunal other than the Supreme Court or the High Court of Justiciary is of the opinion that any retained EU case law that is relevant to an issue before it should be departed from, that court or tribunal must-(i) in its judgment set out the reasons for that opinion, and(ii) refer the case to the Supreme Court or, as appropriate, the High Court of Justiciary,and if the Supreme Court or High Court of Justiciary grants leave for the case to proceed, it must decide whether to depart from the EU case law on the issue before it.”, and”Member’s explanatory statementThis amendment would introduce a procedure which could be initiated in any court of the United Kingdom and result in a decision which is authoritative in the United Kingdom without any interference with the independence of the judiciary.

Ayes 206, Noes 186.

Debate in Parliament |

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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 (Content)Minority (Not-Content)Turnout
Con5 174 (+2 tell)73.0%
Crossbench35 321.6%
Green1 050.0%
Independent Labour1 050.0%
Judge4 028.6%
Lab85 (+2 tell) 046.8%
LDem64 069.6%
Non-affiliated7 624.1%
PC1 0100.0%
UUP1 1100.0%
Total:204 18450.5%

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

Sort by: Name | Party | Vote

NamePartyVote
Lord Bowness Conaye
Viscount Eccles Con (front bench)aye
Baroness Eccles of MoultonConaye
Lord Mackay of ClashfernConaye
Lord Marlesford Conaye
Lord Carrington Crossbenchno
Lord Craig of RadleyCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Hogan-Howe Crossbenchno
Baroness Falkner of MargravineNon-affiliatedno
Lord Gadhia Non-affiliatedno
Lord Holmes of RichmondNon-affiliated (front bench)no
Lord Mann Non-affiliatedno
Lord Prior of BramptonNon-affiliatedno
Lord Taylor of WarwickNon-affiliatedno

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