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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.

The right hon. Gentleman might get as far as I did by doing that.

Atos do disability checks for the Government and a number of disability claimants had a forum where they put their comments about that. Atos, I understand, sent a legal letter that closed it down because the threat was sufficient. The Government could not have done that and Atos should not, so the public function issue matters. There are plenty of other ways in which large corporations can defend their reputation, but using money and legal threats is not one of them.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
561 c276 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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