Influences on parliamentary law making
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- Influence on Law Making
- Law Commission
- Set Up in 1965
- Consdiers and researches areas of law that needs to be reformed
- Focuses on lawyers or pure law
- A constitution document will be published this will outline the law and why it nedds to be reformed
- Constitution document puts forward proposals to codify law. (bring it all to one place)
- Public opinion/media
- If the public protest, the government are more likely to change the law
- The change is more likely to occur during an election to gain more votes
- Issues are given high profile which helps a campaign gain more support
- Ben Kinsiller
- Pressure Groups
- Have particular interests put pressure on the government bu bringing things to their attention
- 2000- reduced age of homosexual consent to 16
- National Union ofTeachers
- European Law
- The government has to introduce any law passed bythe EU
- E.G. The Sex discrimination act (1975-1986) was brought in to trat men and women fairly
- Some aspects of EU law are unpopular in Britain
- Political Influences
- Parties Manifesto
- Opening of parliament (once a year) the government announces its plans for new laws
- This is done in the queens speech
- Law Commission
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