Parliamentary Privilege - Leading Cases

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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