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Defamation Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Hunt of Wirral (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 5 February 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills on Defamation Bill.

The noble Baroness is quite right. I have spoken many times to Professor Horgan and to the Irish press council. Much of what I am seeking to introduce in the new Leveson-compliant body will follow the lessons learnt in the Republic of Ireland. All that I was seeking to point out to Lord Justice Leveson was that as soon as you go down any statutory route, which requires a Bill—I added this after I had made my comment about the Defamation Bill—you would be opening Pandora’s box. I suppose that the proof of that is the revised Marshalled List of amendments, because we are now getting into quite complicated territory.

I think that the way forward is, yes, to hear from the Government what has been happening in these three areas—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
743 c160 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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