The Parliamentary Immunity Against Criminal Proceedings (Comparative study)

Shukr, Najeeb

	The Parliamentary Immunity Against Criminal Proceedings (Comparative study)
AL- Mouhakiq Al-Hilly Journal for legal and political science
Article 1, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 220-257
Author
Najeeb Shukr
Abstract
The parliamentary immunity against criminal proceedings means the inadmissibility take any criminal proceedings against a member of Parliament except in the case of flagrante delicto until after parliamentary approval of him, and find find their justification in several things most important to make the legislature as the true expression of the will of the people spared attacks executive authority in the state and enable the prosecutor to carry out his duties as best while find its basis in the Constitution or the law The report of the parliamentary immunity does not mean that the illegal acts committed by a member of Parliament will become legitimate acts as that what all those immunity is around to take legal action against member of parliment only after the approval of Parliament who belongs to him, as it does not apply only to the availability of the specific conditions of that a person member of parliment and that the offense committed is remarkable and the parliament does not approve the lifting. Parliament's decision to accept the request to lift the immunity or rejection does not make member of parliment a criminal or innocent and does not affect the retention as a parliamentary deputy.
Keywords
Has become a phenomenon include constitutions does not provide for the members of the Chamber of Deputies independence; protect direction Other authorities; confidence and check them when exercising their distinctive phenomenon in the constitutions of most countries

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