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5 Aug 2010, 1:29 am
“A former Conservative Sussex MP is to take the man who beat him at the general election to court over comments he made about his expenses claims. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 7:32 am
“A leading law firm has been found ‘in contempt’ of the Commons after threatening an MP with legal proceedings if he made allegations about one of its clients in the House. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 2:32 am
“An all-party group of MPs has written to the judge heading the inquiry into the UK’s role in torture and rendition setting out the steps they believe are needed to establish the truth. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 4:23 am
“Labour MPs awarded legal aid to fund their court battle against charges that they fiddled parliamentary expenses will have to pay the money back, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today. [read post]
30 Jul 2010, 3:17 am
“Three former Labour MPs and an ex-Tory peer facing expenses fraud allegations have lost appeals over a ruling that they are not protected by parliamentary privilege from prosecution. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 3:17 am
“The parliamentary watchdog has warned MPs that his organisation will come down on them ‘like a ton of bricks’ if they break new expenses rules, saying those who cheat could be fined or have pay docked. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 4:10 am
“The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), which was brought in to clean up the discredited MPs’ expenses system, initially indicated that politicians would be identified when a formal probe was launched.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 25th July 2011 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 2:18 am
“A Muslim extremist who posted a call for attacks on MPs who supported the Iraq war on a radical website, along with where to buy a knife, has been jailed for 12 years.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2011 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 3:29 am
“MPs have branded current sentencing policy incoherent and inconsistent, and warned that it risks being driven by a misguided view of what the public want. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 2:07 am
“MPs say vulnerable groups may be disproportionately affected by a shake-up of civil legal aid in England and Wales and want it to be ‘refined’. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 1:35 am
"A group of MPs is suing the CIA in the American courts in an attempt to force the agency to hand over information about Britain's secret involvement in its extraordinary rendition programme. [read post]
23 May 2008, 1:45 am
“A request to see MPs’ expenses seemed innocuous enough. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 1:27 am
“It is the ultimate twist in the expenses scandal that the three MPs who, with one peer, face charges under the Theft Act 1968 are now invoking parliamentary privilege as their defence. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 9:37 am
But white collar professionals are increasingly fiddling taxes, according to an MPs’ report today that discloses that 36 barristers have been forced to return £605,000 to tax authorities. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 11:44 am
MP Fuad Siniora, chairman of the Futures Bloc [official website], issued a statement saying... [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 1:45 am
“Philip Hollobone, the Tory MP for Kettering, has told the media that he won’t meet with constituents who wear a burqa or niqab. [read post]
6 Sep 2010, 1:19 am
“News International and David Cameron’s PR chief, Andy Coulson, face the prospect of a fresh parliamentary inquiry into phone-hacking by the News of the World after Labour MPs said they plan to press for the issue to be referred to the powerful standards and privileges committee of the House of Commons. [read post]
17 Apr 2006, 3:22 am
[JURIST] Israeli police arrested seven Hamas members of the Palestinian Legislative Council [official website] in Jerusalem on Sunday, including top MP Mohammed Abu Teir. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 7:54 am
“A Tory MP has been given the green light to sue the Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers for libel over allegations he bullied a female colleague. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 1:28 am
“MPs have urged the government to improve safeguards for British citizens wanted by authorities overseas by reforming extradition laws, indicating the strength of political feeling in support of Gary McKinnon, who has been battling for six years against a US extradition bid to face hacking charges.” Full story The Guardian, 6th December 2011 Source: www.guardian.co.uk [read post]
