Seanad debates
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed)
12:00 pm
Eugene Regan (Fine Gael)
I agree this provision is required. In the next paragraph, section 15(2)(g), privilege also attaches where a witness or a legal representative or a juror makes a statement. Consequently it would be entirely incongruous to exclude a judge performing his or her judicial functions from the protection of the privilege afforded in the Bill.
Under this section I also wish to ask whether——
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