It’s been a week of children and planes this week in Westminster. Not children in planes, that would lead to the sort of disaster that only comes about when I attempt to be clever at any point in my life. So have government been learning lessons? And will they fly high off the back of […]
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One of the areas we’ve been anticipating an uptick in attention recently has been in agriculture and fisheries, and this year has already provided us with our first case in this area. Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation v Scottish Ministers [2021] CSOH 1 comes to us, as the title would imply, from the Scottish Courts and
Something fishy up north- Scottish Government loses fisheries consultation challenge Read More »
New decision requires careful interpretation It is not a loophole …but there are times when a service change can avoid a consultation. This is if one adopts a strict interpretation of the well-known Section 14z2 of the 2006 NHS Act (as amended) which converted the previous ‘duty to consult’ into the ‘duty to involve (whether
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Over the weekend Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, wrote an article in the Sunday Telegraph announcing plans to legislate to protect statues from what he described as ‘baying mobs’. The announcement follows the prominent removal of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston from Bristol last year by
Government plans to legislate to protect statues – consultation to become mandatory? Read More »
After our little Cassandra-like venture into prophecy last week and with Parliament now back from their Christmas recess, we can get back into our regular pattern of trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. Westminster We’re going to start in the House of Lords today, where their Lordships have been debating the Government’s Medicines
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At the beginning of December last year, the Institute hosted a Wednesday Wisdom session looking at the consultation related legal cases of 2020. As it’s the beginning of the new year we thought we’d provide a quick summary for those who couldn’t make the Wednesday Wisdom. Out of necessity this will be less detailed- for
Consultation in court- the cases of 2020 Read More »
Many people are cynical about public engagement and consultation: “why should I get involved, no-one will listen”, or “they will just do what they want anyway”. What these remarks really mean is that people do want to have their say but don’t feel that it makes a difference to the decision-making process. They don’t see
Tackling the Climate Emergency: The value of Community Engagement Read More »
In a sea of uncertainty, the likely future for public consultations is remarkably easy to predict. The experience of 2020 has created a groundswell of scepticism and an increased wariness of top-down decision-making. Few people doubt the difficulties that Ministers, Councillors and public bodies of all kinds have faced. But, as recent High Court cases
Consultation in 2021: Prognosis and Predictions Read More »
Challenges to NHS reconfigurations are some of the most common consultation related cases we see in the Courts. The latest in this canon was brought against the Herts Valley CCG and judgment had just been handed down. The challenge was brought to two decisions to reorganise NHS hospital provision in Hertfordshire, alleging that they had
Do we need to ‘consult’ on option selection? Or just ‘involve’ ? Read More »
Well, we’re back and it’s been a quiet start to the year hasn’t it? Can barely think of anything notable that’s happened. So instead of what’s going on right now, we’re going to take a quick speculative look at the year ahead, what we might expect and what things we should be keeping an eye
The Week in Parliament- What should we expect in 2021? Read More »
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