The Press and Parliamentary Privilege Or Britain During the 20th Century
Author : C. K. Seymour-Ure
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Page : 515 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : C. K. Seymour-Ure
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Page : 515 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Colin Seymour-Ure
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Page : 984 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Freedom of the press
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Author : Carl Frederick Wittke
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Carl Frederick Wittke
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : Thomas Erskine May
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : Carl Frederick WITTKE
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 1921
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ISBN : 9780598758446
Author : Joseph P. Maingot
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 1997-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773567135
Joseph Maingot describes the parameters of the principal immunity enjoyed by Members of Parliament, that of freedom of speech, which is restricted to the context of a parliamentary proceeding and not beyond. He points out protections afforded members other than parliamentary privilege and the view of both the courts and the legislatures concerning parliamentary debates and proceedings as evidence in court. He also sets out in detail what the House of Commons considers to be and not to be a matter of privilege, as well as the corporate powers of the Houses of Parliament.
Author : Ronan Deazley
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 190692418X
What can and can't be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership - of privilege and property. This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices. The essays reach back to the very material world of craftsmanship and mechanical inventions of Renaissance Italy where, in 1469, the German master printer Johannes of Speyer obtained a five-year exclusive privilege to print in Venice and its dominions. Along the intellectual journey that follows, we encounter John Milton who, in his 1644 Areopagitica speech 'For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing', accuses the English parliament of having been deceived by the 'fraud of some old patentees and monopolizers in the trade of bookselling' (i.e. the London Stationers' Company). Later revisionary essays investigate the regulation of the printing press in the North American colonies as a provincial and somewhat crude version of European precedents, and how, in the revolutionary France of 1789, the subtle balance that the royal decrees had established between the interests of the author, the bookseller, and the public, was shattered by the abolition of the privilege system. Contributions also address the specific evolution of rights associated with the visual and performing arts. These essays provide essential reading for anybody interested in copyright, intellectual history and current public policy choices in intellectual property. The volume is a companion to the digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): www.copyrighthistory.org.
Author : Great Britain: Ministry of Justice
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780101802024
This consultation paper sets out the Government's proposals for reform of the law on defamation, aiming to achieve balance between protection of freedom of speech and the protection of reputation. The Government wants to ensure that the threat of libel proceedings is not used to frustrate robust scientific and academic debate, or to impede responsible investigative journalism and the valuable work undertaken by nongovernmental organisations. Issues included in the draft Bill are as follows: a new requirement that a statement must have caused substantial harm in order for it to be defamatory; a new statutory defence of responsible publication on matters of public interest; a statutory defence of truth (replacing the current common law defence of justification); a statutory defence of honest opinion (replacing the current common law defence of fair/honest comment); provisions updating and extending the circumstances in which the defences of absolute and qualified privilege are available; introduction of a single publication rule to prevent an action being brought in relation to publication of the same material by the same publisher after a one year limitation period has passed; action to address libel tourism by ensuring a court will not accept jurisdiction unless satisfied that England and Wales is clearly the most appropriate place to bring an action against someone who is not domiciled in the UK or an EU Member State; removal of the presumption in favour of jury trial, so that the judge would have a discretion to order jury trial where it is in the interests of justice.