Defamation Bill

Yes and no. Subsection (2) includes the phrase “amongst other matters”, so it puts what Lord Nich...

It is entertaining to be following the hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr Garnier), not l...

You did libel somebody.

Let us not go into it now; we can discuss it another time.

I am the secretary of the parlia...

Many years ago, early in my trade union life, the Daily Mail made up quotes, attributed to me, re...

I would say that falls on the basis of clear malice on the part of the journalist.

The poin...

I welcome this debate. I understand that new clause 4 is not going to be pressed to a Division, s...

I draw the hon. Gentleman’s attention to new clause 5, which was tabled by the right hon. Member ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and will end my remarks on this point. I...

Clause 4 is an important, central part of the Bill, but some commentators believe that, as drafte...

Same parents.

Indeed. As I was about to say, because we both know their provenance, we understand the reasons f...

I thank hon. Members on both sides of the House for the kind and generous sentiments that have be...

I am most grateful to the hon. Lady, and may I say on behalf of hon. Members on both sides of the...

I cannot comment on the details of individual cases, but if my hon. Friend writes to me, I will l...

I shall be brief in winding up this valuable debate. I am grateful to colleagues, who have expres...

I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman and the parties that there should be a discussion on the pr...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman.

It is vital that the other place slows the Bill down because it is in lock-step with Leveson. The...

I agree that there is complete and utter whatever-it-is between the two.

I disagree with the good people on the Opposition Benches. This Bill is about defamation. We know...

We are hearing a quick last set of bids for how the Government should proceed. The point that wil...

I beg to move amendment 8, page 8, line 26, leave out from ‘court’ to end of line 28 and insert—<...

I am grateful to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Robert Flello) for raising this subjec...

Amendment 8 would add two additional hurdles to overcome before a court had jurisdiction to hear ...

I hear what the Minister says. However, I urge her to consider the amendment again, if I am not s...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

I am pleased to be here for this T...

First, I take the opportunity to congratulate and welcome the entire Front-Bench Justice team to ...

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David Morris.

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It is an honour to be the first Back Bencher called in this debate, Mr Speaker.

This is an ...

This is a welcome Bill. I welcome the constructive approach of the new Secretary of State and his...

Order. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to confirm that the cases that he is describing are not...

No, Sir, they are not. They are just filed at the moment and can be discussed. No charges have be...

You, Mr Speaker, and the right hon. Gentleman may remember that when we debated the Sergei Magnit...

I will freely do so. I do not want to drag this debate into the Magnitsky affair, but it is remar...

I will not follow the same acerbic path as the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr MacShane).

I am not sure whether this is the appropriate time, but I am sure that the whole House would like...

In parenthesis to what I was saying about the right hon. Member for Rotherham, I thank my right h...

There is one obvious problem with putting into statute things decided by judges and juries, which...

It is probably unwise to give cocktail advice across the Chamber, even to my hon. Friend.

Especially for free.

Yes, especially for free.

The Derbyshire county council case was a development of the commo...

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I have clearly puzzled the right hon. Gentleman so I will let him intervene.

The concept of forum non conveniens—I think that is the Latin phrase—is quite well known. An empl...

I do not want to descend into the right hon. Gentleman’s difficulties with lawyers and he will ha...

I, too, welcome the new Secretary of State, but I do not want to forget the outgoing Secretary of...

I join hon. Members in thanking the outgoing ministerial team and the former Secretary of State f...

I will not follow what the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr MacShane) said about the Sergei Ma...

It was the late Enoch Powell who was first quoted in The Guardian, in December 1984, as saying: