Parliamentary privilege
Just as long as you’re not “impugning Parliament”…
Friday, November 6th, 2009Another part of Justice Dobson’s decision in Leigh (discussed below) revolves around the court’s anxiousness not to involve the courts in any impugning of Parliament. He rules that Ms Leigh can’t use Trevor Mallard’s attack on her in Parliament during Question Time to support her case.
There is good authority for this rule. One is the […]
And speaking of defamation lawsuits involving fisheries…
Thursday, September 25th, 2008The Simunovich case (discussed below) isn’t the same as Winston Peters’ defamation lawsuit against TVNZ, Radio NZ and others about the fisheries issues - the case that saw Rodney Hide ejected from the House late last month. Peters fumed that Hide was improperly trying to raise issues during question time that were being contested in […]