Bill of Rights 1689
Bad Laws: Labour has clowned around with our freedom
...laws of the land, the very essence of nationhood: the Petition of Right 1628, the Habeas Corpus Act 1679, the Bill of Rights 1689, the Slave Trade Acts of 1807 and 1833, the Great Reform...
Met passes further expenses file to CPS
...court that they were protected from criminal prosecution by the right of parliamentary privilege, dating back to the Bill of Rights of 1689. There was outrage last week when the Director...
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GBP1,000 fine for using wrong bin: Families face new crackdown over household waste
...David Derbyshire is correct, then this is absolutely contrary to our Constitution, Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights and just the thing to take such a case all the way up to the Supreme...
CPS: Baroness Uddin will not face charges over expenses
...Devine and Lord Hanningfield pleaded not guilty and said they were protected from criminal prosecution by the right of parliamentary privilege, dating back to the Bill of Rights of 1689.
It is almost identical to a provision in the English Bill of Rights of 1689, in which Parliament declared, "as their ancestors in like cases have usually done...that excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. "
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Why the Bill of Rights of 1689 could decide 'fraud' MPs' fate
...invited to become joint sovereigns after the Catholic James II was deposed in the Glorious Revolution. An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the...
Rule of law vs. security
...of Parliament. None of these stipulations could be effective without an independent judiciary, achieved by the Bill of Rights of 1689 and the act of settlement of 1701. This leads to a...
MPs and peer invoke parliamentary privilege as they plead not guilty to expenses charges
...matter of the prosecutions was covered by parliamentary privilege conferred upon them by article nine of the Bill of Rights 1689: "Article nine provides that proceedings in parliament...
Expenses four defy court and plead not guilty
...proceedings is also covered by the Parliamentary privilege conferred upon [the MPs] by Article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1689. " Lord Hanningfield also entered a not guilty plea in the...
Letters: Founding Father?
...Newton wrote his "Principia Mathematica" and Englishmen back home accomplished the Glorious Revolution and English Bill of Rights. That is, the founders were heirs not only of settlers...
Repealing the Human Rights Act may not be as alarming as it seems
...ten years ago, in 2000, yet already all three major parties propose to amend it. The Government proposes a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, bringing together rights such as free...
The privilege of a short memory Michael White
...an MP to speak freely in the Commons without fear of interference by any court in the land, is enshrined in the Bill of Rights of 1689. It ended almost a century of battles - political,...
Only a bill of rights can save our liberties Henry Porter
...can only exist if defined in law and administered by their profession. Any Briton who argues for a new bill of rights that includes the ECHR, as I have, does so with some doubts,...
