UK Parliament / Open data

Defamation Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Browne of Ladyton (Labour) in the House of Lords on Monday, 17 December 2012. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Defamation Bill.

I am enormously grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lester, but perhaps my powers of advocacy have failed me with him once more. I thought I made it clear that I do not support the amendment for many of the reasons he rehearsed by reference to the document he read from—I am not sure what it was, perhaps it was the report of the Neill committee.

For all the reasons I have evinced, I think that it would be impossible to make this work, and I suspect that the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, also probably thinks that it would be incredibly difficult. I just want to repeat the point that we have some obligation not only to the Watson family but to many other people who have to live with the consequences of this sort of behaviour. We have to apply our minds to trying to find some way of giving them redress or at least a way of healing the damage that is done post mortem to the reputations of people who cannot defend themselves.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
741 c434GC 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
Back to top