The Supreme Court has rejected the bid by three former MPs to avoid criminal trials for allegedly fiddling their expenses on the grounds of Parliamentary Privilege.
It upheld a decision by the Court of Appeal which made it plain that allegations of ‘ordinary’ crime by MPs and Lords ‘does not, has never, and, we believe, never would’ come under the protection of the 321-year-old defence.
Now that is clear for the second time, perhaps we can get on with the business of testing these three men, and the member of the Lords also accused of false accounting, in an open criminal court.
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It upheld a decision by the Court of Appeal which made it plain that allegations of ‘ordinary’ crime by MPs and Lords ‘does not, has never, and, we believe, never would’ come under the protection of the 321-year-old defence.
Now that is clear for the second time, perhaps we can get on with the business of testing these three men, and the member of the Lords also accused of false accounting, in an open criminal court.
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