The Weekly Law Reports
[1999] 1 WLR 1569
[COURT OF APPEAL]
HAMILTON
v.
AL FAYED
1999 March 8,
9;
26
Lord Woolf M.R., Hirst and Laws L.JJ.
Parliament
— Privilege
— Proceedings in Parliament
— Parliamentary inquiry making adverse findings as to former member's conduct
— Defamation action subsequently brought by former member over accusations on television programme concerning conduct
— Whether action “questioning” proceedings in Parliament
— Whether collateral attack on parliamentary proceedings
— Whether to be struck out as abuse of process
—
Bill of Rights 1689 (1 Will. & Mary, sess. 2, c. 2), art. 9
—
Defamation Act 1996 (c. 31), s. 13