As we know parliamentary sovereignty is very important within the UK law. To express the importance, parliamentary supremacy means that parliament has unlimited legal power to act within any law without external restraint. In R V A-G 2006, Lord Bingham described this as the bedrock to the british constitution. Parliamentary supremacy came into the UK in 1689. This was after King James II had tried to use Royal prerogatives to favour the catholics. William of Orange and Mary did not approve and…
Abstract The European Union of today is the result of a process that began over half a century ago with the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community. From that time, a durable peace has existed in the European continent for about 70 years. As we can see from the remarkable successes of the process of European integration today is significantly affected by the legislative procedures that apply to different policy fields. In fact, there were some thorny issues and crises took place with…
Leases over 3years must be registered with land register but a licence is terminated whenever requested by the owner. Unless a tenant has exclusive possession there is no lease but a mere licence. This can be shown in the case Street v Mountford [1985], where Ms Wendy Mountford had concluded an agreement with the landlord for exclusive residential occupation (of…
two possible outcomes is whether or not the UK will remain a member of the EU’s single market. After separating from the EU, the most economically beneficial route would be that the UK joins the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and European Economic Area (EEA), thus remaining a member of the single market, similar to Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway. However, there are several potential barriers for this option to be successful, which makes free movement of goods, services, people, and…
Imagined Community: Nationalism: • The concept of nationalism can be defined as a common identity formed between people (Okoth, 2006: 1). • Nationalism was previously viewed as an unpredictable and dangerous force (Chaterjee, 1993: 3). • Nationalism is a product of the political history of Europe (Chaterjee, 1993: 4). • CLASS QUESTION: Do you think that the Western countries had a reason to fear the phenomenon of nationalism? Imagined Community: • A nation is a socially constructed…
The main statute that is an authority on this subject is Human Rights Act 1998. By the same token, the European community has European Convention on Human Rights that is also instrumental in diluting the Human Rights Act. One of the violations brought forth by the Factortame case is the violation of Article 43 of EC by section 14 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988. The…
impact this can have in understanding the perceptions of inequalities or lack of opportunities faced by certain groups in society. It covers a range of ideas from its multi-dimensional concept, Muddiman’s powerlessness, the social, political and economic spheres, Rowntree’s ‘basic…
before the Great Depression in order to learn why they seemed to experience such a detrimental effect. Finally, this essay will look at the lasting effects of the Great Depression on the two chosen states. The origin of this economic crisis is linked with World War I, and the economics and political problems that followed. It can be seen that the Great Depression affected each country in a severe but similar way. It is evidence…
Eurocentric. Introduction. “Modernization theory proposes that there are natural stages of economic development that all societies go through from undeveloped to advanced,” (Little & McGivern, 2013, p.560). One of the criticism of the modernization theory is that, “ widely varying degrees of development observed globally have less to do with natural stages of development and more to do with relations of economic exploitation and geopolitical power, especially those structured by the legacy of…
Forty years ago, the British people voted by referendum to join the European Economic Community. But that wasn’t too fair a referendum now, was it? You see, the British people only gave input to join an economic community which has since transformed to the European Community, and now the European Union without the consent of the British people. Since our admittance to the EU, our right to self-govern has slowly dwindled away. Right now, for example, the European Union makes 75% of our laws. They…