Lord Burnett of Maldon says MPs and peers acting like ‘one-person court of final appeal’
The lord chief justice has accused MPs and peers of endangering the rule of law through repeated “abuse” of parliamentary privilege to name individuals granted anonymity in court cases.
In a strongly worded attack, Lord Burnett of Maldon said parliamentarians who ignored their responsibilities were behaving like a “one-person court of final appeal”.
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