This article examines issues surrounding the use of parliamentary privilege, when it comes to naming sex offenders in Parliament.

Summary: The first decade of the 21st century proved to be momentous for constitutional reform in the UK and, at times, a period of lively, even torrid, commentary on the law and practice of parliamentary privilege. The purpose of this paper is to identify the...

This paper examines the law and practice of parliamentary privilege both in Australia and in other jurisdictions.

Why did most of the media run dead on the Securency bribery story, asks Peter Browne.

A collection of 17 essays, written around the centenary of Federation, telling the story of how Parliament has fashioned and reworked the intentions of those who crafted the Constitution. Produced by the Parliamentary Library, Commonwealth of Australia. 1. Federal Parliament's Changing Role in Treaty Making...

Parliamentary privilege concerns the powers, privileges and immunities from aspects of the general law conferred on the Houses of Parliament, their members, officers and committees. This paper starts by defining the subject, before looking at parliamentary privilege in the context of a wider constitutional setting...

This background paper, which reflects the law as at 1 March 2007, discusses questions and issues in parliamentary privilege that continue to be the subject of debate or uncertainty. These include the law relating to: the execution of search warrants, the issuing of subpoenas and...

The Speaker represents the parliament, chairs debates, administers the parliamentary bureaucracy, and oversees parliamentary privilege. The Speaker, then, should be above politics -- indeed, to do the job well seems to require the qualities of a saint. Now a Speaker has recounted his views of...

The purpose of this paper is to comment upon the relationship between MPs and copyright law and to analyse the impact of the law of parliamentary privilege upon it. That relationship can be approached from at least three perspectives which can be categorised as the...