Perhaps I may briefly pursue the point I raised about whistle-blowers—I hope that my noble friend did not mind my briefly interrupting him to ask him about it. Let us envisage the situation in which a whistle-blower provides information to the commissioner who then, in one form or another, reports that information publicly. At that point, does the information become privileged in the case of the whistle-blower? In other words, is the whistle-blower covered once the commissioner himself or herself reports on the information that he or she has received?
Secondly, can my noble friend explain a little more about the nature of qualified privileges? What is the boundary between the full privilege proposed in the clause and qualified privilege?
Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Rowlands
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 18 October 2005.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [HL].
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