AC 1. 1 - Flashcards
understand content
laws
What is common law ?
dervied as case law - other name
common law - a body of unwritten laws based on judicial rulings established by the courts .
unwritten judicial rulings
guess
how many ways to make a law ?
- parlaiment
- Judges
2
Lords - peers (800)
how many hereditary seats and peer seats
- 92 hereditary seats
- 26 church of england bishops and peers
the rest of the members are life peers
what is the green paper ?
public consulatation - inside and outside gov
feedback - on proposal made
what is the white paper ?
formal proposal for reform - produced
summary documment - bill proposed changes and** pre draft** of the bill
what is the draft act
Bill presented to parliament
what is the laws /statues - legislature system
- parliament creates statues =E&W
- scoatland = has their own processes - but follow fundamental laws
what are the types of bills ?
- private
- public
- personal
- government
-private members
private bills
intended to affect one particular or organisation
public bills
intended to affect the public as whole
personal bills
affect one or two people . always begin in the HOL
government bills
-put through parliament by a minister - gov department
private member bills
sponsored by an individual MP or peer
Bill processes
- consulation stage
- FR (first reading)
- SR(second reading )
- CS(committee stage )
- RS(report stage )
- TR(third reading )
- PPS(ping pong stage )
- RA(royal assent )
1) consulation stage
-gov makes a draft of the bill ask senior officials to make comments
2) first reading
-gov formal announcement of the bill - hoc/hol
3)second reading
the main debating stage +discuss the bill + vote
4)committe stage
-smaller group of mps & lords- bills examined in detail
(ammendants made )
5) report stage
ammendments made during committe stage are reported back - hoc/hocl
6)Third reading
overall consideration of the bill in houses +final votes
7)other houses - ping pong stage
-follows similar stages
ammendants made then send it back to other house - both must agree -pass the next stage
8)Royal assent
monarch signs off the bill as a new law or act of parliament
how do judges make the laws
Judicial - juges
precedent - a decision in a legal that must be followed in similar cases
statutory interpretation
the way that a court applies legislation
