{"id":110965,"date":"2021-01-24T19:10:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T02:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110965"},"modified":"2021-01-24T19:10:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T02:10:05","slug":"parliamentary-privilege-and-possible-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/24\/parliamentary-privilege-and-possible-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE AND POSSIBLE ABUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Palitha Mapatuna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It is possible that an individual might hide behind the\nlegal immunity of parliamentary privilege &nbsp;and, disregarding moral\nprinciples, engage in direct or implicit defamation of another or others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such defamation may happen either through the defamer\u2019s own\nintention or by instigation of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this occurs, it seems contrary to the intention behind\nparliamentary privilege and, as such, would amount to abuse of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fairness, it therefore seems necessary that framers of\nparliamentary rules re-examine the question of parliamentary privilege to\ndetermine whether it is possible to introduce safeguards against abuse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this regard, blind adherence to practices in some other\ncountries does not seem prudent or necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palitha Mapatuna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palitha Mapatuna It is possible that an individual might hide behind the legal immunity of parliamentary privilege &nbsp;and, disregarding moral principles, engage in direct or implicit defamation of another or others. Such defamation may happen either through the defamer\u2019s own intention or by instigation of others. If this occurs, it seems contrary to the intention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}