...that memorable Major Charta declared' that "the ' Bill of Rights, s. 9. freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached...questioned in any court or place out of parliament." . Having established this safeguard of political discussion, the members of the Lower House lost no...

...That election of members of parliament ought to be free. 9. That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached...questioned in any court or place out of parliament. 10. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual...

...That election of members of parliament ought to be free. 9. That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached...questioned in any court or place out of parliament. 1 0. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual...

...have • 36 According to Art. 9 of the Bill of Rights of 1689, "the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached...questioned in any court or place out of Parliament." Freedom of speech is restricted to parliament under the Danish, Irish, Japanese, and Dutch constitutions....

...1689, which applies to both Houses of Parliament. This provides that "freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached...questioned in any court or place out of Parliament". As Sir Elwyn Jones, later Lord Elwyn Jones, told a House of Commons Select Committee in 1971: "[i]t...

...oftentimes discuss and debate amongst 22 See Chapter 6. 28 "That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached...questioned in any court or place out of parliament." themselves many things concerning the king's prerogative and agreed upon petitions for laws to be made...

...law of all Australian jurisdictions.63 Article 9 provides that: [T]he freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached...questioned in any court or place out of Parliament. Evidence of proceedings in a parliament, if sought to be adduced to impeach the proceedings to remove...

...courts. This is true even of Article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1688: '...the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached...questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.' In Pepper v Hart (1993) Lord Browne- Wilkinson offered a construction of Article 9 en route to his...

...argument at 149. 18 1 Will, and Mary, sess. 2, c. 2 (1 688). "That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached...questioned in any court or place out of parliament". Like Magna Carta and habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights of 1688 has been part of the law of New South...

...the Crown16 were illegal; and, of the greatest significance, that the 'freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament'.17 From this time, the supremacy of parliament over the Crown was established...