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: Current AwarenessThe Big Question: What is parliamentary privilege, and is it being abused? ? The Independent
By sally
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“Why are we asking this now?
Three Labour MPs, Elliot Morley, David Chaytor, Jim Devine and a Tory peer, Lord Hanningfield, have been charged with false accounting over their expenses claims. They deny the offences and are trying to avoid a criminal trial by invoking the 1689 Bill of Rights which gives force to parliamentary privilege. [...]
Full post as published by Current Awareness on February 09, 2010 (boomark / email).
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