Breach of Privilege.
> The Dean case afforded members ol 1 the New South Wales Assembly a chance to fly to arms against what seemed a breach of privilege. A definition of these perquisites of legislators is hard to set* tie. Members cannot be summoned within the precincts of the House, and should they deem it their duty to attack outsiders their utterances are deemed harmless. The particular infringement on this occasion was the decision to allow members speeches to be put in evidence in the Dean case. Members I produced yards of precedents to show how these privileges were obtained during centuries past and protested against being endangered by the present action. One legal light laid it down that members could not be held responsible for utterances in Parliament, but it was quite possible such speeches might be used in evidence against a third party. He then almost brutally reminded sensitive members that the case was subjudice. Nobody in the House was so competent as the Judge to decided what was evidence and what was not.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 145, 18 December 1895, Page 2
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176Breach of Privilege. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 145, 18 December 1895, Page 2
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