Sentences with phrase «recent constitutional affairs»

In its response to a recent Constitutional Affairs Select Committee report — Implementation of the Carter Review of Legal Aid, which attacked many of the proposals for reform and warned the government to slow down implementation — the government says it will stand firm on its reform programme.

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His ministers have been speaking out in recent months - in August, constitutional affairs secretary Lord Falconer said the US was guilty of a «shocking affront to the principles of democracy» in using the camp to hold terror suspects.

This is not an acceptable state of affairs for a modern democracy, and it is why the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee decided to look into why voter engagement in the UK has declined in recent decades, and what can be done to reverse this trend.

According to the July 2007 report of the House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee (now called the Justice Committee), in terms of this combination of legal administration / advice and political duties: «Recent events [eg the Constitutional Reform Act 2005] have called into question the sustainability of this divided set of responsibilities.»

In recent years, CCLA has supported similar bills, such as Bill C - 279, in written submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, and in our testimony to the Senate Committee on Human Rights in June 2013 and the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in October 2014.

Recent controversies over the ending of the BAE Systems fraud investigation and the attorney general's potential deciding role in the cash - for - peerages investigation have «compromised or appeared to compromise» the position and raised serious concerns about how independence and impartiality in the role can be guaranteed, says the report by the Constitutional Affairs Committee.