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Defamation Bill

Proceeding contribution from Peter Bottomley (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 16 April 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills on Defamation Bill.

I am grateful to the Minister for taking us through this matter. The problem comes when a body—not a person—sends a threatening letter to an ordinary member of the public. Were I to go to a pop concert and be abused by security staff, and then tell my friends not to go to anything organised by those people, and if they then issued and served a writ, what chance would I have, with no money? Do I go straight to court and say, “They’ve shown no loss. Cut it out. They are not a person. They’ve got no feelings. They should not be allowed to do it.”?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
561 c268 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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