Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Mp's expenses

Three former Labour MPs charged with fraud over their parliamentary expenses are to take their case to the Supreme Court. Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine are to appeal to the country’s most senior judges at a hearing next month. The three, along with Lord Hanningfield, a Tory peer also accused of expenses fraud, are due to go on trial in November. But they claim that they cannot be tried in ordinary criminal courts because of centuries-old laws on parliamentary privilege. Three Court of Appeal judges found against them in July saying that they could not envisage how the ancient...

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