Delegated legislation in the pandemic : further limits of a constitutional bargain revealed
Lock, Daniella and Londras, Fiona de and Grez Hidalgo, Pablo (2023) Delegated legislation in the pandemic : further limits of a constitutional bargain revealed. Legal Studies, 43 (4). pp. 695-733. ISSN 0261-3875 (https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2023.25)
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Abstract
The challenge that delegated legislation poses to parliamentary sovereignty and associated supremacy in the UK is purportedly addressed through what we term the 'constitutional bargain of delegated law-making'. This has three elements: the proper limitation of delegation by Parliament through well-designed parent legislation, the exercise of self-restraint by the Executive in the use of delegated authority, and the enablement of meaningful scrutiny by Parliament. As a paradigm situation in which delegated law-making might be said to be necessary, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic is an apposite context in which to assess the robustness of that bargain. Our analysis uses a sample of Westminster-generated pandemic-related secondary instruments as a peephole into the broader dynamics of this constitutional bargain and further reveals its significant frailties; frailties that are exposed, but not created, by the pandemic.
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Lock, Daniella, Londras, Fiona de and Grez Hidalgo, Pablo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7793-2709;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 86151 Dates: DateEvent5 December 2023Published5 October 2023Published Online6 June 2023AcceptedSubjects: Law Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Law School > Law Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 13 Jul 2023 15:07 Last modified: 21 Nov 2024 01:24 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/86151