Editors’ note: This post is based upon a conference paper presented at the UKCLA conference ‘Debating the Constitution after the General Election’ held at the University of Manchester on 24 June 2015.
A key feature of constitutional reform since 1997 (though we might plausibly, perhaps, remove that final qualification) is the discrete nature of the various strands which make up the totality – rather than a single process of constitutional reform involving both, say, the reform of the House of Lords and the introduction of the Human Rights Act, we have instead seen multiple processes of constitutional reform, which have often proceeded without reference to each other even where they have taken place simultaneously. On one hand, we get some sense of why it may be preferable not to tie together different reforms by considering the difficulties in which the current government finds itself over the interaction of human rights…
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