This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1981. Each instance is reproduced in its context as recorded in Hansard.
This survey forms part of the evidence for the correct legal interpretation of injurious weeds in the Weeds Act 1959. See also why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law.
| Speaker | Context |
|---|---|
| Mr. Clinton Davis | Do they consider that the issue of flags of convenience raises questions of unfair competition which they seem studiously to have ignored in the past—aspects which are just as injurious to British shipping as the unfair competition practised by the Soviet Union? |
| Mr. Davis | Those policies are deeply offensive and are injurious to the interests of my constituents. |
| Mr. Miller | : Does my hon. and learned Friend agree that it is offensive to our ideals of democracy, injurious to personal liberties and livelihoods and, in the case of a 152 major dispute, such as British Leyland, prejudicial to the whole economy, that such decisions should be reached at open meetings, in open parks, with no check on those attending? |
| Mr. Colin Shepherd | This is important, as the debate will be widely read and I should not like it to be felt that there was something injurious about the eggs at present produced. |
| Dr. Roger Thomas (Carmarthen) | We are glad that although the majority of Welsh counties and districts have possibly transgressed, for the time being at any rate they are to be given a stay of execution and that we are to be saved from further injurious Government interference. |
| Sir Raymond Gower (Barry) | In connection with the questions asked about English local authorities where there has been a change of political control and a decision to levy another rate, will my right hon. Friend implore any authorities that contemplate such action, including South Glamorgan, to think again, in view of the injurious effects that it would have on many companies and firms that are facing other difficulties? |
| Mr. Peter Archer (Warley, West) | But when it comes to deciding whether the condition of premises is or is not liable or likely to be injurious to health, one is moving outside the field where a tribunal is entitled to draw on its own experience. |
| Mr. Miller | These are especially injurious to the metal manufacturing and forming firms which predominate in our region. |
| The Solicitor-General | Later on, when the proceedings have been brought and the issues are clarified, the Crown knows what it is dealing with, but if it were faced with an application under clause 33 to inspect any such documents before having the issues clarified and narrowed by an exchange of pleadings, it would be extremely difficult for it to decide whether and to what extent to claim that the disclosure of the document sought would be injurious to the public interest. |
| The Solicitor-General | In the ordinary rough and tumble of litigation between subjects a robust approach by the courts can no doubt be justified, but it is a different matter where the information which the Crown may be called upon to disclose is comfidential and sensitive and where the issue for the court is whether its disclosure would be injurious to the public interest. |
| Mr. Cryer | But in the cause of better understanding within our democratic society, comment of the nature permitted by subsection (2) would be helpful and not injurious. |
| Sir George Young | The Adulteration of Food and Drink Act 1860 prohibited the sale of food or drink with which ingredients or materials injurious to health had been mixed. |
| Mr. Nelson | We are trying to prevent groups of people acting together, either formally or informally, but with the definite understanding that they will all benefit from such co-ordination, to acquire shareholdings in companies that are above the level that has to be notified publicly and that may subsequently be injurious to other shareholders or employees in those companies. |
Injurious weeds and the law | Why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law