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Labour’s ‘Juridification’ of the Constitution

Masterman, R.M.W.

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This article responds to a number of points made by Mark Bevir in his article ‘The Westminster Model, Governance and Judicial Reform’ [Parliamentary Affairs 61 (2008), 559–77], in which Bevir highlights the ‘increasing role of the courts in the processes of collective decision-making’ which has been the result of, inter alia (but of particular importance to Bevir's argument), the passage and implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. This article puts forward an alternate view of Labour's recent record on constitutional reform, arguing that, while the contemporary constitution may have seen an increased degree of ‘juridification’ of the sort described by Bevir, the strengthening and development of political mechanisms of accountability has also been of considerable importance to Labour's constitutional reform programme, and that, as a result, the ‘juridification’ of the constitution is not the incontrovertible and relentless process that Bevir appears to suggest.

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Masterman, R. (2009). Labour’s ‘Juridification’ of the Constitution. Parliamentary Affairs, 62(3), 476-492. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsp013

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jul 1, 2009
Deposit Date Jul 14, 2011
Publicly Available Date Aug 2, 2011
Journal Parliamentary Affairs
Print ISSN 0031-2290
Electronic ISSN 1460-2482
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 62
Issue 3
Pages 476-492
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsp013

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This is a pre-copy-editing author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Parliamentary affairs following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Masterman, R.M.W. (2009) 'Labour’s 'Juridification' of the Constitution.', Parliamentary affairs., 62 (3). pp. 476-492 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsp013





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