Constitution - Sixth Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
Acknowledgements
Mapping the Changing Constitutional Landscape
The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and the
Concordat
Creation of the Ministry of Justice
Criteria for Assessing the Changing Landscape
Independence of the Judiciary
The Scope of our Inquiry
CHAPTER 2: EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIARY
Strained Relationships?
Managing the Tensions
Table 1: The Craig Sweeney case: sequence
of events
General Channels of Communication
Constitutional Change
Human Rights Act
"Dialogue" in Relation to Convention
Rights
Ministerial Compatibility Statements and
Parliamentary Scrutiny
Greater Guidance to the Executive from the
Courts?
Should there be a System of Abstract Review?
Review of Bills by a Committee of Distinguished
Lawyers
Advisory Declarations
CHAPTER 3: PARLIAMENT AND JUDICIARY
Laying Written Representations before Parliament
Other Ways of Communicating with Parliament
The Question of Accountability
The Role of Select Committees
A Parliamentary Committee on the Judiciary
Post-legislative Scrutiny
Confirmation Hearings
An Annual Report on the Judiciary
CHAPTER 4: JUDICIARY, MEDIA AND PUBLIC
Public Perceptions
The Role of Individual Judges
The Role of the Lord Chief Justice
The Role of the Judicial Communications Office
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
APPENDIX 1: Select Committee on the Constitution
APPENDIX 2: List of witnesses
APPENDIX 3: Paper by Professor Kate
Malleson: The Effect of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 on
the Relationship between the Judiciary, the Executive and Parliament
APPENDIX 4: Paper by Professor Anthony
Bradley: The New Constitutional Relationship between the Judiciary
Government and Parliament; and further paper: Changes in the Machinery
of Government affecting the Department for Constitutional Affairs
and the Home Office
ANNEX 2
ANNEX 3
APPENDIX 5: Paper by Professor Paul
Craig: The Rule of Law
APPENDIX 6: Declarations of incompatibility
made under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998
APPENDIX 7: Comparison of Responsibilities
of the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Constitutional
Affairs; and breakdown of duties of the Lord Chancellor and Secretary
of State for Justice
APPENDIX 8: Evidence by the Lord Chief
Justice, 3 May 2006
Oral Evidence
Rt Hon Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC
Oral Evidence, 22 November 2007
Ms Clare Dyer, Legal Editor, The Guardian, Ms Frances Gibb, Legal
Editor,
The Times, and Mr Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor, The Daily
Telegraph
Oral Evidence, 6 December 2007
Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP
Oral Evidence, 17 January 2007
Rt Hon Lord Mackay of Clashfern
Oral Evidence, 24 January 2007
Rt Hon Lord Lloyd of Berwick
Oral Evidence, 24 January 2007
Rt Hon Sir Igor Judge, President of the Queen's Bench Division
and Head of Criminal Justice, Mr Mike Wicksteed, Head of
Judicial Communications,
Judicial Communications Office, and Mr Peter Farr, Chief
Public Information Officer, Judicial Communications Office
Oral Evidence, 21 February 2007
Professor Dame Hazel Genn
Oral Evidence, 7 March 2007
Mr Paul Dacre, Editor, Daily Mail
Oral Evidence, 7 March 2007
Rt Hon Lord Justice Thomas and Rt Hon Sir Igor Judge, President
of the Queen's Bench
Division
Oral Evidence, 1 May 2007
Rt Hon Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC
Oral Evidence, 1 May 2007
Professor Robert Hazell, Professor Terence Daintith
and Professor Alan Page
Oral Evidence, 9 May 2007
Dr Matthew Palmer
Oral Evidence, 9 May 2007
NOTE: In the text of the report, (Q) refers to a
question in oral evidence
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
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