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Privilege and the Lords

Lord Norton 03/12/2008 – 8:43 pm

Not surprisingly, given developments in the House of Commons, one question frequently asked in conversations in the Lords today was: what would be the position if the police sought to enter a peer's office in the House of Lords?  The positions in the two Houses are not identical.  The House of Lords is a self-regulating House and the Lord Speaker does not have powers equivalent to those of th […]