Suchergebnisse

Foreword / Lord Lisvane -- Introduction / Alexander Horne and Andrew Le Sueur -- What is the parliamentary scrutiny of legislation for? / Sir Stephen Laws -- Pre-legislative scrutiny / Jessica Mulley and Helen Kinghorn -- Parliament's constitutional standards / Jack Simson Caird and Dawn Oliver -- European scrutiny / Paul Hardy -- Legislative scrutiny in the House of Lords / Philip Norton (Lord Norton of Louth) -- Parliamentary reform and the accountability of government to the house of commons / Richard Kelly and Lucinda Maer -- The regulation of lobbyists / Oonagh Gay -- Robot government : automated decision-making and its implications for parliament / Andrew Le Sueur -- Parliament and national security / Alexander Horne and Clive Walker -- Parliament and international treaties / Arabella Lang -- Sovereignty, privilege and the european convention on human rights / Alexander Horne and Hélène Tyrrell -- Euroscepticism and parliamentary sovereignty : the lingering shadows of Factortame and Thoburn / Gavin Drewry.

"Public law is amongst the most fast-moving, contentious, and exciting areas of law to study. The past few years has been a period of unprecedented constitutional and political change. Although the UK has now left the European Union (EU), there is continuing debate over aspects of the post Brexit relationship with the EU, over devolution, and over possible repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998. There is much written on public law and an ever-growing range of key texts for university courses on the subject, including on constitutional and administrative law, as it is often referred to: the big textbooks, shorter works, and a number of 'text, cases, and materials' books. For us, it is this latter type which provides an ideal medium for an account of the legal aspects of the United Kingdom constitution. There are three main reasons. First, it gives students a chance to read at first hand the analysis and arguments of academics and participants in the constitution, most aspects of which are contested: the extracts convey the debates and disagreements most effectively. In selecting the materials for use in this book and adding our commentaries we have attempted to focus on subjects that are in the mainstream of the majority of public law or constitutional and administrative law courses in the United Kingdom. We have focused on legal aspects of the constitution, not least because most users of the book will be studying public law as a core area of their undergraduate law studies, but we hope that non-lawyers will also find the book of value"--