Leading Cases
- Sir Thomas Haxey – free speech
- Richard Strode (Privilege of Parliament Act)
- George Ferrers – debt default
- Stockdale v. Hansard – defamation by Hansard
- Charles Bradlaugh – Oath of Allegiance
- Duncan Sandys – free speech
- Archibald Maule Ramsay – treason
- Garry Allighan – defamation
- Duncan Campbell (the Zircon affair) – free speech
- Neil Hamilton – Cash for Questions
- Bill Heffernan – free speech
- "Superinjunction" controversy":
- The Guardian–Trafigura affair - Right of the media to report proceedings covered by parliamentary privilege
- Fred Goodwin v News Group Newspapers Ltd and VBN and CTB v News Group Newspapers (Ryan Giggs) - Right of the media to report on anonymised court injunctions; parliamentary privilege used to allow the media to report the existence of injunctions and the parties involved
- An unnamed injunction in 2006 granted preventing participants of a case from speaking to individuals including "Members of Parliament, journalists, lawyers" on toxic chemicals in passenger ship water tanks and resulting illnesses – Right of constituents to speak to their MPs; existence revealed in a parliamentary question several years later.
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