Quote Originally Posted by poop
Not a criminal offense, a contempt of parliament. He couldn't go to jail for it. Afaik the PC's power is limited to suspending MPs from sitting in parliament as an MP for a term anywhere from 1 day to life, and some other relatively minor punishments like taking away their pass so they can't use the tea room for cheap meals or some shit.
So it's an employment disciplinary panel pretending it has the clout of a proper court?

Yeah sounds like a kangaroo court to me.