This is from today's Prime Minister's Questions.
David Blunkett: Does the Prime Minister share my concern at the actions of the Northern Ireland Attorney General, in using an outdated and discredited law of disrespecting the court to invoke contempt proceedings against the former Northern Ireland Secretary, my Right Honourable friend for Neath, for comments in his memoir. Shouldn’t respect for the independence of the judiciary, be balanced by the rights of individuals to fair comment of that judiciary?
Prime Minister: I do have a great deal of sympathy with what the right honourable gentleman says, I mean, parliamentary privilege, obviously, quite rightly allows honourable members to express their views in Parliament. In terms of what is said outside Parliament, let me just say this, there are occasions as we all know when judges make critical remarks about politicians and there are occasionally remarks when politicians make critical remarks about judges. To me this is part of life in a modern democracy, and I think we want to try and keep this things as far as possible out of the court.
For Information: An initial hearing will take place in the Northern Ireland courts next Wednesday, 24 April.