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Defamation Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Browne of Ladyton (Labour) in the House of Lords on Thursday, 17 January 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Defamation Bill.

I am grateful to the Minister for giving away and apologise to Members of the Committee since I did not take part in the debate on this amendment. It occurred to me as he was speaking, and I draw his attention to the provisions of his own Bill, that the place where he seeks to draw the line and the restriction that he seeks to maintain may well already be overtaken by the provisions of new sub-paragraph (2)(a) which subsection (7) seeks to add to the schedule. I cannot think of any circumstances

where the kind of document that the Minister is talking about in such a meeting would not be circulated to the members of the company with the authority of the board of directors of the company. That information will already be privileged as far as I can see. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the Minister’s concern about revealing private commercial business of this nature is already overtaken by the provisions which he seeks to put in the Bill.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
742 c318GC 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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