division_name: Defamation Bill &#8212; <i>Report</i>
motion: <p class="italic" pid="a.140.9/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Amendment 1</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.140.9/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"> Moved by Lord Puttnam</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/3" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"><b>1:</b> After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/4" pwmotiontext="quot">"Arbitration Service for defamation and related civil claims against members of Independent Regulatory Board</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/5" pwmotiontext="lines">(1) The Lord Chief Justice shall establish a Defamation Recognition Commission.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/6" pwmotiontext="lines">(2) Schedule (Recognition Commission) makes provision relating to the Defamation Recognition Commission.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/7" pwmotiontext="lines">(3) The Defamation Recognition Commission shall certify bodies as Independent Regulatory Boards in accordance with the criteria in Schedule (Recognition Commission).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/8" pwmotiontext="lines">(4) An Independent Regulatory Board shall provide a recognised arbitration service as set out in Schedule (Specialist Arbitration Service).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/9" pwmotiontext="lines">(5) A court shall take into account when awarding costs and damages whether either party, claimant or defendant in a dispute has chosen not to use the recognised arbitration service of an Independent Regulatory Board.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/10" pwmotiontext="lines">(6) A court shall award costs under subsection (5) on an indemnity basis unless the interests of justice require otherwise.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/11" pwmotiontext="lines">(7) A court may order a successful party to pay all the costs of proceedings if such party has unreasonably refused to use an available recognised arbitration service.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/12" pwmotiontext="lines">(8) A court awarding in its judgment exemplary damages where a defendant is guilty of a flagrant breach of a defendants rights, can also take into account whether-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/13" pwmotiontext="lines">(a) a claimant refused to use a recognised arbitration service;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/14" pwmotiontext="lines">(b) a defendant refused to use or join a recognised arbitration service;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.140.9/15" pwmotiontext="lines">(c) the court shall also take into account whether a defendant first sought advice from a recognised Independent Regulatory Board before publication."</p>