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Parliamentary immunity, also known as legislative immunity, is a system in which political leadership position holders such as president, vice president, minister, governor, lieutenant governor, speaker, deputy speaker, member of parliament, member of legislative assembly, member of legislative council, senator, member of congress, corporator, councilor etc. are granted full immunity from ...
May 24, 2016 · It protects members of parliament against any criminal or civil law proceedings in relation to deeds or words which, outside the context of a parliamentary mandate, would be punishable under criminal law or could incur the liability of the person responsible for those words or deeds (for example defamation or abuse). 11.
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Workshop on Corruption and Immunities Vienna 16 June 2016 Page 1 of 10. Political immunities in Europe: the scope and lifting of parliamentary immunities. INTRODUCTION The agenda for this workshop proposes “Political Immunities in Europe” as the title for this introductory talk. In fact, I intend to confine myself to a rather narrower topic ...
Diplomatic immunity. Diplomatic immunity is a principle of international law by which certain foreign government officials are recognized as having legal immunity from the jurisdiction of another country. [1] [2] It allows diplomats safe passage and freedom of travel in a host country and affords almost total protection from local lawsuits and ...
The concept of parliamentary privilege (freedom of speech) has been defined, for the purposes of the present study, as the protection members of parliament enjoy from legal action resulting from an opinion expressed or vote cast. Thus defined, the concept of freedom of speech is known in all the countries which have collaborated in this study ...
PDF | On Feb 12, 2003, Simon Wigley published Parliamentary Immunity: Protecting Democracy or Protecting Corruption? | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
elected as an MEP. The Spanish Supreme Court re quested a preliminary ruling on his immunity. 1 Parliamentary immunity, in general terms, is a controversial institution.2 Nevertheless, the CJEU has limited case law on the matter,3 although this area of Protocol No. 7 to the Treaties
