division_name: Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill &#8212; Clause 4 - Civil claims
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c854.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Freedom is a fragile thing&#8230;it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c856.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to impart ideas, opinions or information&#8230; by means of speech, writing or images (including in electronic form)&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c859.4/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;well-heeled trouble-makers for whom the costs issue would be of no concern at all.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2023-11-14">14 November</phrase> 2022; Vol. 825, c. 709.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c859.4/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Why would the Government think it appropriate to subject our universities and student unions to any of this legalism?&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2023-12-07">7 December</phrase> 2022; Vol. 826, c. 210.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c859.4/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it is extremely difficult to see what kind of order a court could make in practice that would deal with the situation that has arisen in relation to the non-securing of freedom of speech.&#8221; &#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2023-11-14">14 November</phrase> 2022; Vol. 825, c. 706.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c859.4/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Managing the potential for litigation would&#8230;likely create significant administrative and resource burdens without adding to the enhanced protections for free speech introduced by the new OfS complaints process.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c859.4/17" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Why would the Government think it appropriate to subject our universities and student unions to any of this legalism?&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c862.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I stand firm in my belief that the tort is an essential part of the Bill.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c862.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c864.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;felt like the icing on the cake of a ridiculous system that had let us down. The disciplinary process had failed to sanction a rapist, but was threatening us with sanctions if we talked about it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c867.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;has been a contentious measure throughout the passage of the Bill&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c867.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;raised concerns that the measure would subject higher education providers, colleges and students&#8217; unions to costly, time consuming and unmeritorious or vexatious claims&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c867.0/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;conditions of registration on any provider that falls short of the enhanced duties created by this Bill.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c867.0/15" pwmotiontext="yes">regulatory tools&#8230;from simply seeking an action plan from a university&#8230;through to imposing fines on an institution if it does not deliver&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2023-11-14">14 November</phrase> 2022; Vol. 825, c. 716.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c867.0/17" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;could have exactly the opposite effect to the one intended.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c867.0/19" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;people who are thinking of&#8230;inviting speakers or organising events&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c867.0/21" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;inhibited from doing so for fear that they could potentially find themselves caught up in complicated and demanding legal action&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c867.0/24" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;are an important place in which students with a wide range of political views have their first experience of organising debates, exchanging ideas and disputing.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2023-11-14">14 November</phrase> 2022; Vol. 825, c. 713.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c870.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;all that is sacred is profaned&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c870.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;All that is solid melts into air&#8221;&#8212;</p>