Privilege Accorded to Parliament in UK Law
Leading Cases
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R v Derby Magistrates' Court, ex parte B
... ... questions concerning legal professional privilege and the scope of section 97 of the Magistrates' ... whatever inroads may have been made by Parliament in other areas, legal professional privilege is a ... reflects, to the extent to which it is accorded, the paramountcy of this public interest over a ... ...
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R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... report of the inquiry, presented to Parliament in December 1994 (Cm 2741) , revealed extensive ... at any stage to legal professional privilege or confidentiality. The policy was introduced to ... to be directed to the relative weight accorded to interests and considerations. Thirdly, even ... ...
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R (on the application of Miller) v The Prime Minister ; Cherry and Others v Advocate General for Scotland
... ... Queen on 27th or 28th August 2019 that Parliament should be prorogued from a date between 9th and ... Of course, the Government must be accorded a great deal of latitude in making decisions of ... to determine the scope of Parliamentary privilege, whether under article 9 of the Bill of Rights or ... ...
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Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
... ... important issues as to qualified privilege, and a further cross-appeal relating to costs ... section 10 of the Defamation Act 1952, Parliament enacted as follows:- "A defamatory ... is downgraded, and no weight is accorded to the circumstantial test which, by exclusion of ... ...
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Legislation
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Consular Relations Act 1968
... ... (including any enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland) ;“grave crime” shall be ... 17 to any privileges and immunities accorded by customary international law or by ... 67 shall be construed as granting any privilege or immunity which they require to be granted ... ...
- Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964
- State Immunity Act 1978
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International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act 1950
... ... Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as ... that behalf and that no immunity or privilege is conferred upon ... any person as the ... and premises occupied as offices as is accorded in respect of the official archives and premises ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
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The Future of Legal Professional Privilege
... ... to run this argument is not to suggest that the judiciary and Parliament are engaged in an informal conspiracy to undermine this long-standing rule ... English adversarial procedure, the expert's report could only be accorded privilege if the care proceedings were adversarial in nature. Lord ... ...
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The Privileges Committees of the Australian Parliament
... ... is necessary to say something about parliamentary privilege. The idea that parliamentarians have certain privileges not accorded to other men may be traced back to the early years of ... ...
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Parliamentary Privilege and the Bill of Rights
... ... restricted character of ministerial responsibility to Parliament for the activities of thc boards administering nationalised ... considers the degree of legal protection at present accorded to M.P.s to conform with the require- ments of public policy ... ...
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Contempt of Parliament — Instrument of Politics or Law?
... ... It deals at length with the whole question of parliamentary privilege. 1 The three proceedings mentioned warrant examination in some ... if it considered it was not made after a hearing that accorded with the principles of natural justice, if there was an error of ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
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The Scope Of Legal Advice Privilege: The Supreme Courts Decision In 'R(Prudential And Another)'
... ... of reasons such extension was one that was properly left to Parliament ... Factual Background ... In 2004, the Prudential group of ... patterns of professional life" (per Lord Sumption JSC); it accorded with the function of the courts to ensure that changes in legal, ... ...
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UK Supreme Court Confirms Privilege Applies Only to Advice Provided by Members of The Legal Profession
The long-awaited decision in the Prudential case was handed down by the UK Supreme Court on the morning of Wednesday 23 January.... ... could only be effected by way of statutory intervention by Parliament ... Secondly, the UK Supreme Court recognised that Parliament has ... to what professional advice they could definitively expect to be accorded LAP. His Lordship also noted that, if LAP were to be extended, it was ... ...
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