Comments on: MPs rule that you still can’t libel the dead http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/mps-rule-that-you-still-cant-libel-the-dead/ The home of UK regional journalism news and jobs Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Neil Hodge http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/mps-rule-that-you-still-cant-libel-the-dead/#comment-21919 Neil Hodge Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:57:28 +0000 http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/?p=1630132#comment-21919 "House Rules": I quite agree - it is worrying that the vote was so close. I guess this is as much a reflection on press standards - which do need to improve - as well as the mauling that MPs have rightly endured (though seemingly got away with). “House Rules”: I quite agree – it is worrying that the vote was so close. I guess this is as much a reflection on press standards – which do need to improve – as well as the mauling that MPs have rightly endured (though seemingly got away with).

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]]> By: House Rules http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/mps-rule-that-you-still-cant-libel-the-dead/#comment-21894 House Rules Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:01:25 +0000 http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/?p=1630132#comment-21894 I am slightly worried that the vote was that close. "Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly said it was a long-established legal principle that a deceased person could not be defamed because reputation was personal." That should have stopped the debate dead in its tracks. I am slightly worried that the vote was that close.

“Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly said it was a long-established legal principle that a deceased person could not be defamed because reputation was personal.”

That should have stopped the debate dead in its tracks.

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