Constitutional Reform
Leading rural organisations have reacted positively to the High Court’s dismissal of Wild Justice’s ‘speculative’ attempt to judicial review Defra’s most recent burning legislation in England. The attempted judicial review had sought to disrupt the Heather and Grass Burning (England) Regulations 2021 that bans heather burning on our most protected sites with peat of more… Read more »
Northern Ireland’s blasphemy laws are unlikely to be repealed within the current session of the Assembly. Northern Ireland Humanists has been working with the relevant Ministers to bring forward repeal. The Department of Justice hoped to do so as part of a wider criminal law reform bill. But the Department of Justice has been unable… Read more »
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By Emmeline Saunders Plans to increase parliamentary transparency came under threat today as the government dismissed proposals to force lobbyists to operate visibly. The government this morning refused to put into action a recommendation made by the public administration select committee (Pasc) to establish a compulsory register of lobbyists. Instead the government has decided to… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson The thought of adding “glitter” to Whitehall prompted Gordon Brown to press ahead with his ‘government of all the talents’ policy, security minister Alan West has said. Lord West of Spithead, a former First Sea Lord, joined the government in 2007 as one of the new prime minister’s unelected ministers. Most ‘goats’… Read more »
