PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE
The Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and the President of the Queen's Bench Division will begin hearing an appeal today by three former MPs and a peer who deny fiddling their expenses. The defendants are challenging a ruling earlier th
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July/August 2010
'The principle is simple enough: Parliament doesn't interfere with the courts, the courts don't interfere with Parliament. But it's not unlimited'
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July/August 2010
My piece in the new print edition of Standpoint is about parliamentary privilege. You can start reading it here but to fi
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March 2010
‘The DPP’s robust response to the four parliamentarians charged with false accounting amounted to “See you in court”’
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Parliamentary privilege
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