Human rights reform (1997-2010) What is the main piece of legislation and what does it do Where is it binding Random features Why did labour incorporate it (3)

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There are four content areas in UK Politics:
1. Democracy and participation
2. Political parties
3. Electoral systems
4. Voting behaviour and the media.

1. Human rights reform (1997-2010) What is the main piece of legislation and what does it do Where is it binding Random features Why did labour incorporate it (3)

4 basic types of solution: 1. Impose restrictions on the size of inidiviual donations to parties 2. Impose tight restrictions on how much parties are allowed to spend 3. Restrict donations to individuals, ie outlaw donations from businesses and trade unions 4. Replace all funding with state grants to parties, paid out of taxation - All major parties capitalize on the £2 million available from the Electoral Commission - There is also 'short money' which is money provided to opposition parties in order to fund their parliamentary work such as hiring advisors, calculated based on seats won at GE making it biased towards bigger parties - 'Cranbone money' is available to parties in the HOL
Its absence in Britian highlighted that we were lagging behind our european friends Freedom of Information Act 2000 - The new Labour government of 1997 proved to be less enthusiastic about reform once it was in office then when in opposition - The FIA was a watered down version of similar measures in operation elsewhere in Europe - All individuals have a right to see certain kinds of information stored by public bodies - The security services were exempt, while the rest of the government was given a key concession -> the government has the right to conceal information if it feels it might prejudice the activities of government - An Information Tribunal was created who can rule on whether the government must release information or not and is relatively sympathetic to freedom
In 1998, the UK Parliament passed the Human Rights Act which incorporated the ECHR into UK law - The convention was made binding on all public bodies and UK courts strictly enforce such law - Due to parliamentary sovereignty, the convention is not binding to UK parliament but they tend to abide by it regardless Random features: - Freedom from torture - Freedom from discrimination - Abolishment of the death penalty - Hold free and fair elections Why did labour incorporate it into UK law: - General desire to bring UK Constitution into line with that of rest of Europe - Increase in the powers of police and the courts in 80s and 90s was seen as a potential threat to our rights - UK government had been brought in front of ECHR over 50 times already and had lost most cases
These are specifically constitutional statutes which have the effect of establishing constitutional principles - Eg Human Rights Act 1998, Parliament Act 1949 (restrictions on HOL) - Constitutional statutes are alike to regular parliamentary statutes, they look the same and can be amended or repealed the same due to parliamentary sovereignty

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