The Conduct of Lord Moonie, Lord Snape, Lord Truscott and Lord Taylor of Blackburn

Download or read book The Conduct of Lord Moonie, Lord Snape, Lord Truscott and Lord Taylor of Blackburn written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Committee for Privileges and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report from the Committee for Privileges looks at the conduct of Lord Moonie, Lord Snape, Lord Truscott and Lord Taylor of Blackburn. The background to this report was a set of allegations, made in the The Sunday Times on 25 January 2009, stating that the peers had been willing to engage in paid advocacy. The Sub-Committee on Lords' Interests has reported on the conduct of the peers, reaching the conclusion that three of the four members - Lords Snape, Truscott and Taylor - had breached the Code of Conduct. The main Committee, in this report, has examined the Sub-Committee's findings for each of the peers, along with three appeals from Lords Snape, Truscott and Taylor and a personal statement by one of the peers to the Committee. The Committee followed procedures as laid out by an earlier report (The Code of Conduct: Procedure for Considering Complaints Against Members (HL 205), ISBN 9780104014042). The Committee sets out a summary of co