Tag: parliamentary privilege
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Alexander Horne and Oonagh Gay: Ending the Hamilton Affair?
Article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1689 has been the subject of a variety of legal challenges. The Article, which provides (in modern parlance) that: “the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament” is usually considered to…
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Stuart Lakin: Parliamentary Privilege, Parliamentary Sovereignty, and Constitutional Principle
While this was probably not its primary objective at the time, the Daily Telegraph scoop on MPs’ expenses in 2008 has led to the reinvigoration of debates about Parliamentary privilege. Since then, this area of law and Parliamentary practice has hardly left the news, both mainstream and legal. We have had the Chaytor decision, the…
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Phil Larkin and Alexander Horne: report on October’s parliamentary privilege seminar
A seminar on parliamentary privilege, held jointly by the Study of Parliament Group and the UK Constitutional Law Group, took place in Parliament on 12 October, with talks given by three noted authorities: David Howarth (Department of Law, University of Cambridge, and former MP), Anthony Bradley QC (Emeritus Professor of Law, Edinburgh), and Nigel Pleming…
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Stephen Sedley on superinjunctions and parliamentary privilege
Stephen Sedley, the UKCLG’s honorary president, has an article in the London Review of Books “The Goodwin and Giggs Show” (2011) Vol. 33(12) that will be of interest to many UKCLG members. Read it here.