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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Immunity of Legislative Body Members

Zoltán Szente

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
December 2018

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Legislative power — Legislative procedure — Members of legislative body — Parliamentary systems — Legislative accountability

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 Parliamentary immunity is one of the core institutions of the legal status of legislative body members (members of parliament, MPs) in all modern constitutional democracies and is a part of the common European constitutional tradition. Although it does not have a general pattern, some form of immunity can be found almost in all contemporary legislatures. The basic idea of this institution is that special protection is provided for members of the legislature against certain legal (mainly criminal) procedures which are otherwise applied to all citizens. 2 The...
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