Summary
COMMONS speaker Michael Martin is using a 319-year-old law designed to protect freedom of speech to try to stop the publication of Home Office reports on the failing ID card scheme.
Lawyers for Mr Martin appeared unexpectedly at a High Court hearing last week aiming to prevent potentially damaging internal assessments being published under the Freedom of Information Act.See the full content of this document
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319-Year-Old Law Used by Speaker to Gag Id Report
And onlookers were astonished when they argued that the Home Office documents should be kept secret under 'parliamentary privileg...
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