Parliament

Legislation and Accountability
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84946-716-2
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 700 g

This collection of essays by leading academics, lawyers, parliamentarians and parliamentary officials provides a critical assessment of the UK Parliament's two main constitutional roles-as a legislature and as the preeminent institution for calling government to account. Both functions are undergoing change and facing new challenges. Part 1 (Legislation) includes chapters on Parliament's emerging responsibilities for pre-legislative scrutiny of government Bills and for evaluating proposed legislation against explicit constitutional standards. The impact on legislation of the European Union and the growing influence of the House of Lords are also examined. Part 2 (Accountability) investigates how Parliament operates to scrutinise areas of executive action previously often shielded from effective parliamentary oversight, including national security, war-making powers and administrative justice. There are also chapters on parliamentary reform, including analysis of the House of Commons 'Wright reforms', parliamentary sovereignty, privilege and the European Convention on Human Rights, Euroscepticism, and parliamentary sovereignty and the regulation of lobbyists.

The book will be of interest to anyone who is curious about the work of Parliament and is aimed at legal academics, practitioners and political scientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horne, Alexander

Sueur, Andrew Le

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Parlament
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Alexander Horne and Andrew Le Sueur
Part 1: Legislation
2. What is the Parliamentary Scrutiny of Legislation for?

Sir Stephen Laws
3. Pre-legislative Scrutiny in Parliament

Jessica Mulley and Helen Kinghorn
4. Parliament's Constitutional Standards

Jack Simson Caird and Dawn Oliver
5. European Scrutiny

Paul Hardy
6. Legislative Scrutiny in the House of Lords

Philip Norton (Lord Norton of Louth)
Part 2: Accountability
7. Parliamentary Reform and the Accountability of Government to the House of Commons

Richard Kelly and Lucinda Maer
8. The Regulation of Lobbyists

Oonagh Gay
9. Robot Government: Automated Decision-Making and its Implications for Parliament

Andrew Le Sueur
10. Parliament and National Security

Alexander Horne and Clive Walker
11. Parliament and International Treaties

Arabella Lang
12. Sovereignty, Privilege and the European Convention on Human Rights

Alexander Horne and Hélène Tyrrell
13. Euroscepticism and Parliamentary Sovereignty: The Lingering Shadows of Factortame and Thoburn

Gavin Drewry

Über Autor(innen)

Horne, Alexander
Alexander Horne is a barrister (Lincoln's Inn). He is a Partner at Hackett & Dabbs LLP and Visiting Professor at Durham University. Alexander is a former Legal Adviser to the House of Lords European Union and International Agreements Committees in the U.K. Parliament.

Sueur, Andrew Le
Andrew Le Sueur is Professor of Constitutional Justice, University of Essex.

Alexander Horne is Deputy Legal Adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights of the United Kingdom Parliament and a teaching fellow at University College London.
Andrew Le Sueur is Professor of Constitutional Justice, University of Essex.