Sentences with phrase «parliament legislating»

This hardly shows progress from Dickensian times when the Thellusson Will case was fictionalised by Charles Dickens as Jarndyce and Jarndyce in Bleak House, and led to Parliament legislating against such accumulation of money for later distribution.

Clegg won't play ball, reminding Bone there was 100 days spent in this parliament legislating for the referendum lock.

The Sewel convention applies when the Westminster parliament legislates on a matter normally dealt with by the Scottish parliament and can happen only if Holyrood has given its consent.

First, where Parliament legislates to bring UK law in line with the Convention, the legislation it enacts is justiciable (even if the Minister has made a formal statement the new law is HR - compliant).

But the modified ultra vires doctrine is premised upon the supposition that Parliament legislates (or is to be taken to legislate) in the general expectation that the judiciary will subject the administration to rule - of - law based control.

The claimants argue that since in the European Communities Act 1972 Parliament legislated to enlarge the EU (as it now is) to include the UK by transporting the rights conferred by the EU into UK law, it was now for Parliament to legislate to contract the EU legal order by removing the UK.

The government's submissions on s 2 (1) of ECA 1972 «gave no value to the usual constitutional principle that, unless Parliament legislates to the contrary, the Crown should not have power to vary the law of the land by the exercise of its prerogative powers» (at [84]-RRB-.

The design of a legislative framework for identifying and negotiating outstanding issues in the recognition of the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (e.g. Government to consult with Indigenous communities to establish the basis for negotiation with governments and agree on representative structures through which they will undertake those negotiations; the Commonwealth Parliament legislate to establish a framework for negotiation and agreement on the unresolved issues of reconciliation).

Not exact matches

In 1856, The Times echoed his annoyance with the «noisy, dizzy, scatterbrain atmosphere» and called on Parliament to legislate «a little quiet.»

Reacting to the result on Wednesday, Archbishop of Sydney Dr Glenn Davies said in a video posted online: «Although this won't prevent me from continuing to teach that marriage, in God's good design, is between a men and a woman... the reality will be, in a very short period of time, our Parliament will legislate for same - sex marriage.»

«In its early days one of the boldest decisions of the Scottish Parliament was to legislate to end homeless.

And I hope that you, as members of our Scottish Parliament, continue to show courage in the decisions that you make to legislate for the people of Scotland.

Voters will be asked whether they want to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which gives equal right to life to the mother and the unborn, and replace it with new wording to allow parliament to legislate on abortion in the future.

The support of the Parliament will legislate the safeguards our animals need right now and shut down a trade that is fundamentally broken, systemically cruel and not in Australia's economic interest.

The 2015 UK Parliament will still represent, and sometimes legislate for, the whole of the UK.

McKay proposes to beef up the territorial extent statements on each bill; and to improve the discussion of «Sewel motions» received from the three devolved parliaments, permitting the UK parliament to legislate on their turf.

It was tabled by John Baron, who has led pressure on the prime minister to legislate for a referendum to take place in the next parliament.

Extradition is a reserved area, which means that the parliament can not legislate on it.

Generally, parliament does not legislate concerning the Church of England in the absence of a Church Measure.

She legislated to abolish the power of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to legislate for individual Australian states, to end the British Government's consultative role in Australian state - level affairs, and to deprive the Queen's Australian subjects of their right of appeal to Her Majesty in Council.

Indeed, it should be expressly excluded from them; otherwise, it might look as though Parliament is breaking what I understand to be the convention that it legislates for the Church of England only when the church has asked it to?

Parliament is free to legislate on privacy whenever they want to, and the judges have repeatedly dropped hints in judgments that maybe parliament shoParliament is free to legislate on privacy whenever they want to, and the judges have repeatedly dropped hints in judgments that maybe parliament shoparliament should do so.

(The question of how you would entrench a written constitution in the UK has some similar features: the practical political point must be that you legislate to create institutions with a referendum; we have a new convention that it would take a referendum to abolish (eg the Scottish Parliament).

Parliament is deeply sceptical about changing the law - and might even legislate against euthanasia it if it had to.

And she legislated to pre-empt the courts on both sides of the Atlantic by renouncing the British Parliament's role in the amendment of the Canadian Constitution.

There was debate as to whether the Scottish Parliament had the power to legislate for a referendum relating to the issue of Scottish independence, as the constitution is a reserved matter for the UK Parliament.

[17] The Scottish government insisted in 2010 that they could legislate for a referendum, as it would be an «advisory referendum on extending the powers of the Scottish Parliament», [16] whose result would «have no legal effect on the Union».

[69] It was suggested that, following the conclusion of negotiations, the UK Parliament would legislate for Scottish independence to take place on the date that had been negotiated.

It will probably come into force in April 2015, although ministers may choose to legislate in this parliament and implement later if it keeps Tory MPs from causing trouble.

There is, or until last week was, the option (in principle) of Parliament simply legislating a change to AV without any referendum.

Devolution in the late twentieth century has brought a considerable degree of legislative autonomy to both Scotland and Wales; and yet the Westminster Parliament retains the power of legislating for the whole of the UK.

[37][38] With the Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, he has been vocal in two defeated attempts to legislate for such a reform in Parliament.

The last Conservative manifesto contained a commitment not just to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on overseas aid, but also to «legislate in the first session of a new Parliament to lock in this level of spending for every year from 2013.»

There are various different facets of it... We have legislated for a fixed - term Parliament.

Last week Rees - Mogg told parliament the EU might «find an incentive to move quite quickly» to legislate to regulate the City and impose a financial transactions tax.

Although the coalition parties legislated to secure fixed - term parliaments of five years - a precondition of entering into government together - there are two ways in which a general election could take place before 2015.

«However, it seems likely that the Scottish Parliament will legislate for a reduction in the voting age for all future Scottish Parliament and Scottish local government elections and this may lead to pressure for similar changes to the franchise in the other devolved territories.»

While legislating for Brexit will surely remain the government's priority, these developments do suggest that Parliament may be empowered not only in the field of legislation, but also in terms of scrutiny and accountability through the committee system.

«I can't reasonably be expected to endorse a strategy which I don't think makes either much sense in practice and confounds and contradicts what we have solemnly legislated on earlier on in this parliament.»

The prime minister who legislates for fixed term Parliaments and then runs to the country would put the seal on the most cynical interpretations of the new politics.

The Order put it beyond doubt that the Scottish Parliament could legislate for that referendum.

«Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that while it is willing to consider whether the lack of a right to die breaches the European Convention on Human Rights, it thought that Parliament should first have the opportunity to legislate on the matter.

Whether legislating for a five - year fixed - term parliament, or changing the voting registration system, or redrawing the electoral map, this is a government which has not stopped to think twice before meddling with the rules of the game.

The government intends to legislate on the plans during the current parliament to allow construction to proceed.

We also believe that there is an urgent need for Parliament to legislate on the matter, and to introduce a law which legalises assisted dying while also imposing safeguards to protect the vulnerable.»

The government plans to put a «binding motion» before the Commons within days, then legislate on fixed - term parliaments and the new dissolution powers.

Labour would also legislate to require ministers to audit their regional capital spend against economic need and report to Parliament when the investment imbalances are «excessive», McDonnell said.

Stephen Dorrell, the Tory chair of the health select committee, voice disapointment about the failure to meet the promise to legislate in this session of parliament on social care, with a promise only of a draft bill.

What is clear is that Vince is determined to present an economically credible, progressive and above all distinctly Liberal Democrat economic platform — as the Tories test their coalition partner's resolve by attempting to legislate for crushing austerity in the next Parliament, his defence of a Lib Dem approach to economic policy will matter more and more.

Ministers have resisted demands for a public vote from nearly 100 Tory backbenchers, who last month signed a letter to the prime minister calling on him to legislate for a referendum in the next parliament.