Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 6:37 pm on 21 May 1996.

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Photo of Peter Bottomley Peter Bottomley , Eltham 6:37, 21 May 1996

While my hon. and learned Friend is dealing with qualified privilege, does he think that it would be appropriate, between now and the Committee stage, to look at the judgment referred to this morning in The Daily Telegraph where a press conference was held by a judge not to be a public meeting and a newspaper lost an action on those grounds? Should not that be clarified at the same time?