Parliamentary Privilege in UK Law
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UK: Parliamentary Privilege (Defamation) Bill introduced to the Lords – waving goodbye to waiver?
On 9 June 2014 – in an attempt to restore certainty to the ancient doctrine of parliamentary privilege – the Parliamentary Privilege (Defamation) Bill (the “Bill“) was introduced in the House of Lo...
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High Court Clarifies Scope Of Challenges To Consultations On Primary Legislation
... ... Key points ... The principles on which the law of Parliamentary privilege is ... based involve "the requirement of mutual respect by the ... ...
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Abuses Of Power
...The use of parliamentary privilege to break non-disclosure agreements raises questions about their ... ...
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Court Of Appeal Concludes That RPI Has Not Become Inappropriate For The BT Pension Scheme
... ... Issues regarding parliamentary privilege were considered. However, these did not prevent evidence which ... ...
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The Cost Of Living Crisis; CMA Investigates The Supermarkets
... ... This ... accusation was made under cloak of Parliamentary Privilege. There ... is no evidence to support such a claim from a ... ...
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Being In The Media Spotlight: Where Should It End?
... ... an extra-marital affair was 'outed' by MP John Hemming under parliamentary privilege ... Mr Giggs is now back in the legal news in the context of ... ...
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Learn To Stand Up To Government
... ... they make statements. They have also been known to use Parliamentary Privilege to stand up in the House and make statements about named people ... ...
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British Court Says Sikh Challenge To Census Proposal Is Premature
In Gill, R (on the application of) v UK Statistics Authority, (EWHC, Dec. 12, 2019), a High Court judge in England dismissed as premature a challenge to a proposal by the UK Statistics Authority no...... ... submits that the claim is premature, and in breach of Parliamentary privilege, as a declaration in the terms sought would not respect the ... ...
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UK Supreme Court rules that the suspension of Parliament was unlawful
On 24 September 2019, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the Government’s suspension of Parliament was unlawful. The UK Supreme Court judgment can be found here. Key points in the judgment include: Pa...... ... precluded by article 9 of the Bill of Rights or by any wider Parliamentary privilege from considering the validity of the suspension itself. The ... ...
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Sexual Harassment: Is It Fit And Proper?
... ... Whilst Sir Philip Green has described the use of parliamentary privilege to reveal allegations of sexual harassment against him as his ... ...
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