Research Briefing
This note outlines the background to the Modernisation Committee's proposals and its proposals for public bill committees. It notes the House's reaction to the proposals and notes some exchanges on the way in which the process should work.
Research Briefing
This note focuses on the Committee's recommendations on procedural issues, notes the Government's response to them and records the House's decisions. It also gives a brief overview of how the new procedures will operate.
Research Briefing
This note reviews the formalisation of the sub judice rule, which was confirmed by previous resolutions in 1963 and 1972; and considers reviews of the rule since its confirmation in 2001. This Note also covers the sub judice rules in the UK's devolved legislatures.
Research Briefing
This note reports the progress of the Parliament (Joint Departments) Bill [HL] through the House of Commons.
Research Briefing
This note provides a brief summary of the White Paper on House of Lords reform which was published on 7 February 2007. It notes some of the initial reaction to the content of the White Paper from political parties and groups, and pressure groups.
Research Briefing
This note relates some of the further developments in the debate on House of Lords reform that have taken place since the last Standard Note, House of Lords reform - recent developments (SN/PC/2973). The note also considers the steps that have been taken since to make progress on the question of Lords reform.
Research Briefing
This note outlines the background to the establishment of the Joint Committee to review the coventions of the House of Lords and then reviews the conventions identified in the motion. It reviews the debates in both Houses on establishing the Joint Committee in the House of Lords.
Research Briefing
This note briefly reviews the changes made to the Bill in the Commons and, so far, in the Lords, and the background to those changes.
Research Briefing
The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (Bill 111 of 2005-06). House of Commons Library Research Paper 06/06
Research Briefing
The Parliamentary Counsel is a team of lawyers which drafts government bills before they are introduced into Parliament and works on other legal aspects of parliamentary business. This note describes the work of the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and its structure. It also briefly considers the implications of the growing use of pre-legislative scrutiny on the work of the Office.
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