The publication of Parliamentary Privilege in Australia in 1966 established Enid Campbell as the country's leading scholar in the area. Now Professor Campbell has written a successor which, while drawing on parts of the earlier work, focusses on issues and problems which have arisen in recent years, particularly since the enactment of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987.

Topics specifically examined in the book include:

• the scope of the central privilege of freedom of speech and debate in parliament;
• measures adopted by houses of parliaments to regulate exercise of that freedom;
• restrictions on the uses which may be made of evidence of what has been said and done in the course of parliamentary proceedings;
• immunities accorded to MPs in respect of various legal processes, such as ones which require them to appear before a court to give evidence;
• the powers of houses of parliaments to make inquiries and to delegate investigatory powers to committee of their members; and
• the power of houses of parliaments to impose penalties of a criminal character and to discipline their members.

This book, like its predecessor, will be the standard reference on the laws concerning the powers, privileges, and immunities of Australian parliaments, their members, and committees for the next generation.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: Freedom of Speech and Debate
CHAPTER 3: The Correspondence and Records of Members of Parliament
CHAPTER 4: Regulating Speech and Debate in Parliament
CHAPTER 5: Abuse of Parliamentary Privilege and the Citizen's Right of Reply
CHAPTER 6: Use of Evidence of Parliamentary Proceedings
CHAPTER 7: Judicial Review of Legislative Processes
CHAPTER 8: Waiver of Parliamentary Privilege
CHAPTER 9: Exemption of Members of Parliament from Legal Processes
CHAPTER 10: Parliamentary Inquiries
CHAPTER 11: The Internal Affairs of Parliament
CHAPTER 12: The Penal Powers of Parliament
CHAPTER 13: Suspension and Expulsion of Members of Parliament
CHAPTER 14: Commonwealth Powers and Privileges of State Parliaments
CHAPTER 15: Constitutional and International Legal Issues

Bibliography
Index