This collection of essays by leading academics, lawyers, parliamentarians and parliamentary officials provides a critical assessment of the UK Parliament's two main constitutional roles - as a legislature and as the preeminent institution for calling government to account. Both functions are undergoing change and facing new challenges. Part 1 (legislation) includes chapters on Parliament's emerging responsibilities for pre-legislative scrutiny of government bills and for evaluating proposed legislation against explicit constitutional standards. The impact on legislation of the European Union...

Parliament and the Law is an edited collection of essays sponsored by the UK's Study of Parliament Group and written by leading constitutional lawyers, practitioners, and parliamentary officials. The book provides a helpful overview of the way that the law applies to Britain's Parliament, and it considers how recent changes to the constitutional arrangements (in particular the establishment of a Supreme Court and increasing devolution) have impacted Parliament as an institution. It includes a discussion of a number of topical issues, such as: the operation of parliamentary privilege in civil...