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• Okonko Palm 9 years ago

  The modern understanding of parliamentary privilege relates to immunity from litigation for words spoken in parliament.
  
  Any behavior or spoken words outside the precincts of parliament is not not privileged and therefore s ...
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  The modern understanding of parliamentary privilege relates to immunity from litigation for words spoken in parliament.
  
  Any behavior or spoken words outside the precincts of parliament is not not privileged and therefore subject to normal criminal procedure if found to be in breach of the law.
  
  In effect outside parliament,the parliamentarian like any citizen is subject to the rules of law.In fact parliamentary privilege has never prevented the operation of the criminal law.
  
  The fact is that it is a long established principle that no one is above the law including MPs and that Parliamentary privilege was never intended to help politicians escape the criminal law.

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