House of Commons - Privilege: Hacking of Members' mobile phones

Standards and Privileges Committee - Fourteenth Report
Privilege: Hacking of Members' mobile phones

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 29 March 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Privilege: Hacking of Members' mobile phones

Background

Conduct of this inquiry

What is phone hacking?

The law relating to phone hacking

The criminal law

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act

Hacking and privilege

Parliamentary precedents

Westminster precedents

Precedents from other legislatures

Privilege and contempt

Scope and nature of privilege

Scope and nature of contempt

Hacking as a possible contempt

Capacity of the House to investigate allegations of hacking

Sanctions

Parliament and the courts

A Privileges Act

Appendix

Formal Minutes

Oral and Written Evidence

Oral and written evidence

23 November 2010

25 January 2011

Written Evidence