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Former PM Brown endorses consultation as force to save the Union

This weekend the Sunday Times published eye-catching polling which highlighted significant changes in public attitudes towards the continued existence of the United Kingdom in its current form. Although support for Scottish independence has been high for some time, there have been marked increases in support for both a united Ireland and Welsh independence (though it […]

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Government launches major consultation over aviation emissions

Article / Stephen Hill

The aviation sector is currently undergoing many trials. Covid-19 has led to the cancellation of millions of flights globally and is proving a great challenge not only to carriers, but to everyone working in the aviation industry. The other great challenge is the response of the aviation industry as a major polluter, to climate change.

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The Week in Parliament

Article / Stephen Hill

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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Something fishy up north- Scottish Government loses fisheries consultation challenge

Article / Stephen Hill

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

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NHS involvement/consultation clarified by Court

Article / Rhion Jones

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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Government plans to legislate to protect statues – consultation to become mandatory?

Article / Stephen Hill

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

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The Week in Parliament

Article / Stephen Hill

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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Consultation in court- the cases of 2020

Article / Stephen Hill

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

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Tackling the Climate Emergency: The value of Community Engagement

Article / TCI Team

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

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Consultation in 2021: Prognosis and Predictions

Article / Rhion Jones

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

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Former PM Brown endorses consultation as force to save the Union

Government launches major consultation over aviation emissions

The Week in Parliament

Something fishy up north- Scottish Government loses fisheries consultation challenge

NHS involvement/consultation clarified by Court

Government plans to legislate to protect statues – consultation to become mandatory?

The Week in Parliament

Consultation in court- the cases of 2020

Tackling the Climate Emergency: The value of Community Engagement

Consultation in 2021: Prognosis and Predictions

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