Consultations in Parliament it turns out, are like buses, you go weeks without any and then a whole bunch of them turn up at once. Even more amazingly, only three of them related to the coronavirus crisis. I particularly want to look at the debate on the new Draft Human Tissue (Permitted Material: Exceptions) (England) […]
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For a couple of weeks I have been confidently predicting that we are due an upswing in mentions of consultations in Parliament as we move out from the more desperate early times of the coronavirus pandemic. We seem now to have reached that time. In our Briefing paper released last week, we remarked on the
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At the end of last week, the Institute wrote two articles looking forward to the end of lockdown and social distancing measures. Rhion, in his article, identified that whilst the Scottish Government’s document on ending the restrictions did not use the term ‘consultation’, it clearly intimated an approach so close to consultation as to be
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You thought we’d forgotten about this didn’t you? It has been almost precisely a month since the last ‘The Week in Parliament’. Firstly, we had the changes to working patterns brought about by coronavirus which necessitated my attention being elsewhere to deal with the immediate response to that, and then Parliament disappeared into recess. But
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Like all of us, the Courts have had to change their way of working to deal with the ongoing public health emergency. In the courts this has meant that most cases have moved to being online hearings conducted over Skype. With the indisputable importance of justice not only being done, but being seen to be
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As the coronavirus continues to change the way we live and work, we are beginning to see the first moves to compensate for the changes it is forcing upon us. In the UK we had the fast tracked passage of the Coronavirus Act, which we wrote about here. Around the world different states have similarly
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One of the warnings the Institute gave in our Coronavirus emergency advice, and that has been repeated by our associates, is that public bodies should not attempt to use the cover of coronavirus to push through changes without consultation. It seems we are not the only ones to note this possibility. The recently released Government
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Introduction It is the nature of regulation that it sometimes becomes necessary for decisions to be taken and for organisations to lose their status and sometimes their livelihoods. This case highlights the issues that can arise when a comprehensive consultation on a new regulatory framework still failed to assuage the grievance of a body which felt it had been
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Recently, the Institute was asked a very interesting question from one of our members. The question was as follows “Is it ever OK for a councillor to respond to their own consultation?” It’s a very interesting question and one that we have struggled to definitively get an answer to. Examining the law, the first thought was that of
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The most important thing to come out of Parliament this week was of course the Coronavirus Act, which we have written about separately here. With that out of the way, this column can become a Coronavirus free zone! Actually, that might leave us with a bit of a problem, as outside of that particular issue it
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