Michael Martin was pressured by "very senior political sources" to fight a legal battle to keep MPs' expenses secret, it is claimed.

The House of Lords official who oversees its discredited allowances regime, Michael Pownall, has claimed expenses for luxury hotels and tailoring.

There are increased signs that those incensed by the expenses scandal may pursue a legal route to punish the MPs involved.

I have mentioned before that our legal system is in the habit of deciding for itself what is legal and what is not. Retrospective lawmaking on the fly is the order of the day now. There is no longer any need to reference dusty old tomes of legal detail. New Labour have invented three thousand new, petty and ludicrous laws, and any legal representative, be they police, pseudoplod, judge or par...

Speaker calls meeting of party leaders to discuss MPs' expenses crisis Michael Martin, the Commons Speaker, today said he was "profoundly sorry" for his part in the MPs' expenses crisis but defied calls to stand down from his post. In the face of anger from MPs on all sides of the house, Martin made no mention of his own future as Speaker and rejected points of order about a no-confidenc...

Three former Labour MPs facing criminal charges over their expenses win the right to have their legal fees paid for by the taxpayer.

The four politicians charged over the expenses scandal will be able to claim legal aid to fund their defences

THREE politicians accused of fiddling their expenses, including Scots MP Jim Devine, have won a bid to get the public to pick up their legal bill.

The Commons Speaker Michael Martin was under pressure to resign last night after refusing to join a chorus of apologies for the scandal over MPs' expenses. An attempt by Gordon Brown and David Cameron to start restoring public trust in politicians by saying sorry was wrecked when the Speaker turned his fire on MPs who argued that it was wrong to call in police to investigate the leaking of th...

Jonathan Djanogly threatened legal action to stop his election agent speaking out over his Parliamentary expenses claims.