Is Sarah Harman right in describing communications with members of parliament about confidential family proceedings as being technically contempts of court (see [2004] Gazette, 27 May, 12)?
Are not communications between members of parliament and their constituents, whether directly or through solicitors, protected by privilege, and are not those who seek to interfere with that privilege liable to be held to be in contempt of parliament, and - theoretically, at least - punished accordingly?
Anthony Irving, Hancock Quins, Watford
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