Part of Employment Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:00 am ar 16 Hydref 2008.
That would depend on how the union rule book constructed its free legal advice. My point is that we have chosen the test for exceptional hardship carefully. We discussed it with Lord Lester of Herne Hill, and it is referred to in the ECHR judgment and the report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Were we to agree to the test proposed in the amendment, it is possible that any expelled or excluded BNP member would try to argue that the unions decision had disadvantaged them financially. In practical terms, that could make it almost impossible to use the provisions in the new clause.