Tag: select committees
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Joshua Jowitt: Some Thoughts on the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022
Followers of online commentator David Allen Green will be familiar with his (increasingly exasperated) observation that constitutional law is supposed to be dull; if constitutional issues dominate the front pages or otherwise seem exciting, this tends to mean that something is going wrong. It’s a take that has its appeal – but I’ve recently come…
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David Stott: Ministerial Influence in Judicial Appointments – Taking Back Control?
Not since the Blair era has a government been so committed to a significant programme of constitutional reform as the Johnson government, but with very different objectives. The Blair government sought to modernise the constitution and, through the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, to formalise a separation of powers in respect of the judges by (i)…
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Jacob Rowbottom: Digital Communications, Social Media and the Integrity of Elections
In the 2000s, I attended various seminars in which commentators complained that there had not yet been an ‘internet election’ in the UK. The complaint ran that election debates were still largely led by elites in the broadcast and print media, with citizens on the digital media playing a more limited role than hoped. Fast…
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Alexander Horne: Select Committee Powers of Enforcement
On 7 March 2017, the House of Commons Committee of Privileges announced a new inquiry into the exercise and enforcement of the powers of the House in relation to select committees and contempts of Parliament. The Chair of the Committee, Rt Hon Sir Kevin Barron MP, noted two particular matters of concern, namely: (i) where…
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Weekly round-up
This week’s announcements include: Study of Parliament Group circular: Committee of Privileges Inquiry Launched Call for applications, Junior Research Fellowship in Constitutional Law or Constitutional Theory, Trinity College, Oxford University ~~~ Study of Parliament Group circular: Committee of Privileges Inquiry Launched The House of Commons Committee of Privileges had launched an inquiry into the exercise…