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Injunctions

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

528 c633-4 

Session

2010-12

Department

Attorney General

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

John Whittingdale | 528 c633-4 (Link to this contribution) (Urgent Question): To ask the Attorney-General if he will make a statement on the granting and enfor...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c633-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to respond to my hon. Friend on an issue that I know is of conside...

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Julian Huppert | 528 c642-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Attorney-General that there is a balance to be struck between privacy and freedom o...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c640 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. Ultimately, the enforceability of any o...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 528 c639 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that some important issues of principle and of the const...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 528 c639 (Link to this contribution) The internet heralded the age of information abundance, whereas once newspapers could enforce inform...

Lord Khan of Tooting | 528 c635-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Attorney-General for his answer to the urgent question. I also thank the committee chair...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c639 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely right and it is therefore open to this House and the Government to consi...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 528 c639 (Link to this contribution) Could the Attorney-General reaffirm for the benefit of all Members that if this House does not like ...

Philip Davies | 528 c640 (Link to this contribution) Surely, we cannot have a situation in which celebrities court positive publicity to gain sponsorship...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c641-2 (Link to this contribution) As I indicated at the outset, it is possible for Parliament to enact changes to the law. The fact th...

Robert Buckland | 528 c640 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my right hon. and learned Friend could assist me with a point raised by the Neuberg...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 528 c641 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the review, but does the Attorney-General share with me the concern at the deeply sinister...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c637 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman raises an important point, but it ties in with the earlier point about how ...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c640 (Link to this contribution) I think that will be very much a matter for the discretion of the judge hearing the case. I do not t...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c642-3 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend will appreciate, that is ultimately a matter for my colleagues in the Ministry of ...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c638 (Link to this contribution) Scotland enjoys and has always enjoyed a separate legal system. It follows that orders made by the c...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c639 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to my hon. Friend that I am not quite sure what they are supposed to butt out from. If...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c637 (Link to this contribution) I would assume that across the House it would be considered that the abuse of parliamentary privileg...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c637 (Link to this contribution) I would not normally comment on the role I have to carry out as Attorney-General in the public inter...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c638 (Link to this contribution) Yes.

Lord Beith | 528 c637 (Link to this contribution) We would expect a Joint Committee to uphold the necessary rights of Parliament and defend them, but ...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c641 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and that is why I hope the route proposed by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister today comm...

William Cash | 528 c637-8 (Link to this contribution) Does the Attorney-General accept that the fault in this case lies with Parliament itself in not repe...

Tom Brake | 528 c641 (Link to this contribution) Does the Attorney-General agree that in seeking a solution, we need to balance sensitively the right...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 528 c641-2 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that although we must use the naming of individuals in t...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c642 (Link to this contribution) In constructing the Human Rights Act, I do not think Parliament can be described as anything other t...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) Looking at the matters that have been complained of recently, it seems to me fairly noteworthy that ...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c639 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, the question about phone hacking is currently the subject of cr...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c638 (Link to this contribution) It is our duty as parliamentarians to uphold the rule of law.

Dominic Grieve | 528 c641 (Link to this contribution) The question of what role the Press Complaints Commission may play is clearly another subject that t...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c637-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a perfectly legitimate issue, which may doubtless be the subject of debate in ...

Dominic Raab | 528 c642 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the review. Twittergate is just the latest example of judicial legislation distorting the ...

Eilidh Whiteford | 528 c638 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Attorney-General will acknowledge the independence of the Scottish courts. Will he c...

Stuart Bell | 528 c637 (Link to this contribution) We welcome the Attorney-General's clarification, but is it not a fact that if we continue to use par...

Peter Bone | 528 c639 (Link to this contribution) May I take a contrary view? Members of this House have absolute privilege that they use responsibly ...

Eric Joyce | 528 c640 (Link to this contribution) The Attorney-General has rightly concentrated on matters of law but does he agree that equally impor...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c634-5 (Link to this contribution) Let me respond to my hon. Friend's reference to individual cases by saying that he will not be surpr...

David Davis | 528 c636-7 (Link to this contribution) May I press my right hon. and learned Friend further on the second issue raised by my hon. Friend th...

Chuka Umunna | 528 c638 (Link to this contribution) I should like to return to the response to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Middl...

John Hemming | 528 c638 (Link to this contribution) With about 75,000 people having named Ryan Giggs on Twitter, it is obviously impracticable to impris...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c640 (Link to this contribution) May I say to my hon. Friend that our laws already provide very substantial protection for the freedo...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c635-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall deal, so far as I can, with each point in turn. First, the Government have made it clear tha...

John Whittingdale | 528 c634-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the report from the committee of the Master of the Rolls, which contains a number of sensi...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c641 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to comment on individual cases.

Ben Bradshaw | 528 c641 (Link to this contribution) Following on from that question, does the Attorney-General agree that members of the Press Complaint...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c639 (Link to this contribution) May I reassure the right hon. and learned Gentleman that that matter is in the Government's programm...

Keith Vaz | 528 c637 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the establishment of this Joint Committee, which is sensible in view of the difficul...

Matthew Offord | 528 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) I think that we all agree in the House that the law should be used to protect the vulnerable and not...

Dominic Grieve | 528 c636-7 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to my right hon. Friend that my reading of what was said is rather different. In the c...

Subjects

Disclosure of information Freedom of information Judiciary Internet Injunctions Privacy Newspaper press Media Parliamentary privilege Goodwin, Fred

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