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Defamation Bill

I am grateful. I learnt this appalling word from Europe, comitology, which is the study of committees, and I have gone too much into the past committees. Although I am not surprised by the Minister’s reply, I am deeply disappointed by it, because what my amendments seek to do is extraordinarily important but modest. The first would clarify the 1840 Act on a completely non-controversial issue so far as that Act, which is all about reporting proceedings in Parliament, is concerned. The second amendment would remove what everyone has always agreed was a gross anomaly. We apparently will have to wait for yet another committee to look at this, but I am liable to

return to it on Report, because I am not satisfied by the stonewalling. On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
742 c324GC 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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