Law making processes inside and outside of court.
Task 1
For my report Ive decided that I would like to write about the Brexit bill which was established not long
ago back in 2018 which is fully known as the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. What it is that it's
simply an action which allows the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European union and to back away
itself from the European union act 1972. To put within simple context, it's an act which. Which enables
the United Kingdom (UK’s) involvement with the European Union in terms of legal terms. Also, what it
means is that we no longer must abide by the EU directives, decisions and regulations. According to Act
2 Section 7 it also makes provisions which allows the UK to follow the preexisting EU for a certain
amount of time until parliament has officially debated and made its new laws.
Influences
Within the UK the Law Commission was set up back in 1965 and what it does is keeps the law of England
and wales under review and to recommend reforms where it's needed. The aim of the commission is to
ensure that the law is (fair, simple, modern and most importantly, cost effective). In the law commission
it has full time working staff working hard, which is headed by five law commissioners. One of the law
commissioners is the chairman, the chairman's role is a high court judge and himself has a large remit.
What this means is that all the remaining commissioners are either academic or they're practicing
lawyers which they all have separate teams who are working for them. The chairman's purpose and aims
are to make changes to the law of the UK which will make laws in the country simpler, modern, fair and
cost effective as much as possible. To officially decide what projects to take forward after thoughtful
consideration, the law commission then take personal views from the judges, lawyers, government
departments, both voluntary and business sectors, also the general public itself included as well so what
laws are made is fair for everyone. Just before the UK law commission bringing on any project, it must be
well decided whether the project will be important and handy to the country. Also, whether they have
enough resources in their hands to perform the country operation. After researching a selected area of
law, the law commission then produces a new law which will replace the old law, setting out the
problems it faces and produce newer options for change to the old law. Interested parties then set out
recommendations and if the legislation is passed and proposed officially, a draft bill is then created upon.
This will only become the law if it goes through the full parliamentary process. There can be a
disadvantage of the law commission since they have possibly wasted a lot of their own time on a specific
are of law that will not then get reformed – such as the murder law which was meant to be reformed
nearly 5 years ago in September 2016.
The law commission also themselves deal with what is called ‘codification’. What this involves is bringing
together all created laws which are then brought up into the houses of parliament which is based round
a specific topic into act one of the parliaments. The purpose of this act is to simplify the laws as much as
possible in the easiest of ways. For example, the landlords and the tenant's laws in the Uk, which is the
family law and the law of evidence. Many such laws were combined into the offences of the person acts
which was published in 1861. The purpose of this was then to have as many offences prosecuted under
the same specific act. For example, it prevents the government having to face with the death penalty,
violence and terrorism all in one act together. However, many people have argued between that
,codification because they themselves believe that one act would not contain enough details for all case,
which would create certain cases of uncertainty. As well as only this the law commissions have a place
for consolidating laws. The meaning of consolidation is to combine all the statutory provisions pertaining
to such a particular area into act 1 within the homes of parliament. By doing this the laws then become
more easily accessible and much more understandable. One consolidation act is that the wireless
telegraphy act 2006. The Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (c 36) is an Act of the Parliament of the uk . This
Act repealed the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949. The Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 had as its purpose to
"consolidate enactments about wireless telegraphy". The Act was successful as cited in Office of
Communications and another v. Floe Telecom Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 47 to signifies that within the absence
of a license or exemption granted or made under Section 8 of the Act, the use of worldwide System for
Mobile Communications (GSM) gateways (including Commercial Multi-User Gateways) for the aim of
providing a telecommunications service by way of business to a novel person is unlawful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Telegraphy_Act_2006
The UK has a strong, independent media history with many different newspaper titles, television and
radio channels. The media’s role is to inform the public on important issues that affect them whether
these issues are local, national or international.
Newspapers remain an important source of political information with thousands sold and read online
every day. In the UK, the most widely read 'popular' newspapers are the Sun and the Daily Mail. The
most widely read 'quality' newspapers are The Telegraph and the Times.
Within the laws of the land newspapers can print what they like. This means different newspapers can
choose to report the news in different ways. In their choice of stories, pictures and headlines,
newspapers can take a one-sided approach to news reporting.
At the time of an election newspapers are often very clear as to which political party they support urging
their readers to vote for one political party of another. However, this does not mean that all voters are
persuaded by the newspaper they read. Many people buy a newspaper for other reasons, such as sport,
or are not influenced by what they read.
Television (and radio) political news reporting is different from newspapers as the law requires television
news to be fair and balanced. Television companies are expected to report the facts and to be balanced
in their analysis. Different representatives from different political parties are each expected to be
allowed to give their views on important issues.
In recent years, several TV debates have been broadcast involving the leaders of different parties. Each of
these debates were watched by millions of voters. However, post-debate analysis has suggested that
most people who watched the debates had already made up their minds and were not influenced by
what they heard. This meant that although one party leader or another may have appeared to have
‘won’ the debate, overall, the debates had little impact on the election result.
Increasingly people use the internet as a source of information, especially social media. As the internet
allows almost anyone to post almost anything they choose some of the information on the internet is
not accurate. However, the internet does allow people almost unlimited access to information which
means people are better informed than ever before. For political parties this offers the chance to
connect directly with voters and to get their opinions across.
, pressure groups can influence the governments decisions if there is a MP who is a member of the group
or has sympathy in some way towards it. They do this by lobbying MPs, creating petitions and working
with the media to gain as much publicity as possible. There are two types of pressure group: sectional
and promotional. The success of a pressure groups tends to depend on governmental links. The larger
the group, the wealthier it tends to be and the more likely it is to have access to MPs as they will
represent a larger section of society. Therefore, sectional groups tend to be more influential.
Promotional groups are groups which promote a certain cause. Successful, large groups like Greenpeace
and Friends of the Earth have been successful in getting Parliament to consider the environment when
making law as they are well-organised and have huge publicity. A recent example of pressure that gained
the governments attention to make change was in 2020 when the Manchester united and England
football star Marcus Rashford wanted the government to provide free school meals for children in
England during the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. This came around after an ongoing campaign by
Marcus Rashford. Previously, a few months prior this campaign had backfired as he wanted to extend In
October, the Prime Minister had said he would not change his policy on free school meals for the
Christmas holidays, because families are supported by the benefit system.
But after his phone call with the Prime Minister on Saturday 7 November, Rashford said: "Following the
game today, I had a good conversation with the prime minister to better understand the proposed plan,
and I very much welcome the steps that have been taken to combat child food poverty in the UK."
Rashford's campaign for free school meals began in june when he convinced the government to provide
vouchers in the summer holidays for 1.3 million children in England who were receiving free school
meals in term time, following the support given during the first coronavirus lockdown in April. Rashford
had spoken openly about his own struggles with food poverty when he was younger.
All the influences above can influence greenspace and friends of the earth because greenspace is a place
where it's meant to be calm and relaxing for people to have peace and fun in their free time. It shouldn’t
be a place where events such as crimes and vandalism occur.
Response to clients (1. Amir)
I'm writing this to discuss with you the possible outcomes you could face of your ball landing on the
green space of the city park up to 4 times with your friends. I must remind you of the rules of
interpretation. The first rule is literal rule. The literal rule says that the intention of Parliament is best
found in the ordinary and natural meaning of the words used. As the legislative democratic part of the
state, Parliament must be taken to want to affect exactly what it says in its laws. www.open.edu
Green space - an area of grass, trees, or other vegetation set apart for recreational or aesthetic purposes
in an otherwise urban environment. Green space definition – google search. Under the greenspace
definition wood chips wouldn’t be classed as green space simply since greenspace only includes areas of
grass, trees and vegetations only and wood chips isn't to be included within this. Although you were
playing rugby where there were woodchips on the surface, you and your mates had managed to kick the
ball over the fence within the greenspace 4 times. Because of the grass that is now covered in
greenspace while you were playing rugby on woodchips, the grass is no longer deemed as greenspace.
Due to woodchips being covered on the greenspace this violates the green space act, but you and your
mates hadn't intentionally kicked over the ball onto greenspace on purpose. This means that in my
