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Defamation Bill

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

I thank the Minister for her generosity in giving way. The amendment would be the only place in the Bill that provides for an early strike-out procedure. One of the problems has been that we have not seen the changes to the civil procedure rules throughout all this. How, then, can we be confident that what is promised will happen? In the case that the hon. Member for Worthing West (Sir Peter Bottomley) will no doubt refer to in due course—of Peter Wilmshurst and NMT—an early strike-out procedure was necessary to prevent one company from abusing our libel laws. It was an example

of libel tourism and all the worst excesses. The amendment would be the only place in the Bill providing for early strike-out.

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