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Commons Chamber
Cass Review - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) What discussions has she had with Ministers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to ensure that the - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) that many of us had formerly supported, like Stonewall, Mermaids, PinkNews, which I had to sue for defamation - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We should be taking on board Dr Cass’s report in Northern Ireland. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) council, where citizen journalists and bloggers are targeted for criticising the regime and accused of defamation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) First, I discovered that under the Northern Ireland protocol, where the single market in fact includes - Speech Link
3: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) Ireland, and we will of course consider carefully the implications of new EU regulations in Northern - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) subsection (1)(d) insert—“(e) Ofcom must require a broadcaster listing a production as being based in Northern - Speech Link
2: Thangam Debbonaire (Lab - Bristol West) Member for Camborne and Redruth set out.I want to see publishers protected from defamation cases brought - Speech Link
3: Douglas Ross (Con - Moray) Gentleman represents an extremely rural part of northern Scotland. - Speech Link
4: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Ireland get free coverage of the Republic of Ireland via RTÉ broadcasts—while many in Northern Ireland - Speech Link
5: None Ireland to try and draw larger bids and more money for itself and the national associations. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Welcome to Wrexham” or through the Welsh public service broadcasters, projecting Welsh, Scottish and Northern - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Broadcasting Act 1996 says:“’national interest’ includes interest within England, Scotland, Wales or Northern - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) In essence, the system would have focused predominantly on the areas of defamation and privacy.We even - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Report stage - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) Ireland, as defined by article 30 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1993.”This - Speech Link
2: None In fact, the Governments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are all attempting to use the leverage - Speech Link
3: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) Ireland before they proceed? - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) Those experts included the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers’ Superannuation Committee and the - Speech Link
5: Nicola Richards (Con - West Bromwich East) The Anti-Defamation League has assessed that BDS’s campaigns often include allegations of Jewish power - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Non-disclosure Agreements in the Workplace - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Maria Miller (CON - Basingstoke) Surely, we already have laws on defamation that cover that, so that is not a very good argument. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Lady has put forward and to give, as I always do, a Northern Ireland perspective on what we are discussing - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) I point out to him that it is in the capability of the Northern Ireland Administration to implement that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage - Wed 12 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Lipsey (LAB - Life peer) Two former Northern Ireland officials have been hired to produce whitewash reports on it: appointed by - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) It is a service that has caused untold harm and has been sued in the US courts for defamation—which is - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Thu 06 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None The law as it stands—I refer to the Defamation Act 2013, Article 10 of the European Convention on Human - Speech Link
2: None The specific wording follows recent laws on upskirting and down-blousing in Northern Ireland in the Justice - Speech Link
3: None It is included here and in the Northern Ireland draft to raise that threshold just a little. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Eleventh sitting)
Committee stage: 11th sitting - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) the effect of enabling a consumer protection order made in a court in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) There are strong precedents for that approach: judicial or tribunal proceedings are protected from defamation - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) to be implemented as soon as possible, as do I.Clause 206 would protect the CMA against actions for defamation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None It does not matter whether it is a claim for personal injury or for defamation; it will cost somebody - Speech Link
2: None be within the legislative competence of the Northern Ireland Assembly if contained in an Act of that - Speech Link
3: None Ireland) 1945 (c. 15 (N.I.)) and Schedule 4 to the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 - Speech Link