So Lord Hain has taken it upon himself to name the individual businessman at the centre of the Me-Too allegations. He did so by using parliamentary privilege to overcome the application of a legal injunction forbidding the media to reveal the businessman's identity.
We may consider the businessman's behaviour deplorable (and I do). We may think that the decision of the courts was legally and morally questionable (and I do).
But this is the legal system we have. Like any legal system, from time to time it may throw up 'wrong' decisions. But is it right that any maverick parliamentarian may choose to subvert that system, just because he happens to be in the House of Lords or Commons?
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This isn't the legal system 'we have'. It's the English legal system. 'Super-injunctions' form no part of Scots law and so the amount of consideration we pay to such nonsense should be limited.
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