Tag: Independent Monitoring Authority of Citizens' Rights

Jonathan Collinson: From Learning to Lawyering: When Can Political Accountability Have Legal Consequences?

The responsibility for holding the government to account for its failings is the core constitutional role of a range of ‘watchdog’ bodies outside of Parliament, such as inspectorates, commissioners, public inquiries, independent reviews, and ombudsmen. Accountability is seen as a tool to make and keep governments, agencies and individual officials effective in delivering on their…

September 11, 2025
Byron Karemba: Institution-Building in the Brexit Age: The Case of the Independent Monitoring Authority on Citizens’ Rights

Brexit and the Regulatory and Supervisory Gaps Brexit is leading to the creation of new regulatory and supervisory agencies. The need to create these new institutions arises because of two reasons. Firstly, because new regulatory and/or supervisory functions have come into being as a consequence of Brexit. Secondly, because pre-existing regulatory and/or supervisory oversight competences…

January 6, 2021

Jonathan Collinson: From Learning to Lawyering: When Can Political Accountability Have Legal Consequences?