UK: Controversial plans to look at Parliament-courts relationship ‘quietly shelved’
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A proposed commission to look at the relationship between the courts and Parliament has apparently been shelved by the UK government.
Plans for the Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission were outlined in the Conservative manifesto in the aftermath of last year’s prorogation litigation, which culminated in a defeat for the government at the Supreme Court when the justices heard Cherry and Miller Two together and endorsed the judgment of the Inner House.
ConservativeHome editor Paul Goodman said the publication “cannot be sure which of Cummings, various SpAds, Munira Mirza, different advisers and Robert Buckland came up with the Commission idea. But we hear that the manifesto commitment is dead and that there will be no such commission – this year or in any other year.”
Speaking to our sister publication Scottish Legal News last year, judges condemned the suggestion, backed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, that judges be vetted by Parliament in a US-style process.
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