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When the supreme court won’t hear
Supreme court justices are caught up in a new age of accountability. In their judgments, they increasingly find themselves holding the government and other public bodies to account, as they decide more...
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£500 Online Publication: What’s Going On?
David Cameron has promised a ‘transparency revolution’ based upon Open Data and online publication. As part of this, since January 2011 all local authorities in England (with one exception) have begun...
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Mark Harper: the Quiet Reformer
Interview with Sam Macrory, House Magazine With constitutional reform generally more a Lib Dem than Tory pursuit, the Conservative minister overseeing it finds himself at the coalface of coalition...
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FOI and local government in 2010: The experience of local authorities in England
The Constitution Unit has just published its report on English local authorities’ experiences complying with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs)...
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The endgame for the Scotland bill
The Scotland bill, framed to implement the Coalition’s Programme for Government commitment to implement the recommendations of the Calman Commission, had its second reading in the House of Lords in...
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Cameron may regret this penalty shoot-out
The SNP’s long game to independence has been up ended by the Prime Minister David Cameron has hugely raised the stakes by announcing that he wants to hold a binding referendum on Scottish independence....
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Robert Hazell on Newsnight
Robert Hazell explains the legal position of holding a referendum on Scottish independence. Further Information: See our press release on Scottish independence: Cameron transforms long game of...
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Answering the unanswerable question: the UK Government’s commission on the...
This is the text of my article in today’s Scotsman about the UK Government’s ‘Commission on the consequences of devolution for the House of Commons’, announced on Tuesday. The Commons written...
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A Bad Omen for Ministers
Mark D’Arcy’s BBC article citing our research on Lords Defeats http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16708362 Last night’s well-telegraphed government defeat in the Lords, on the proposed household...
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The Perils of Lords Reform: interview with Mark Harper and Meg Russell
Alex Stevenson’s piece from politics.co.uk The coalition’s plans for an elected second chamber are well underway – but can they be turned into reality? Alex Stevenson speaks to constitutional reform...
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