Friday 11 June 2010

***BREAKING*** Three MPs and Peer will be Tried in Court

A judge has just ruled that Parliamentary privilege will not prevent  Jim Devine, Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Lord Hanningfield from facing trial in court over this expenses abuses in court. The defence was being used by the three former MPs to try and keep it within the Parliamentary disciplinary structure. But the judge has rules that their case of false accounting has been correctly brought under the Theft Act and is not covered by privilege protected what MPs can say or write in the house.

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