The Importance of a Codified Constitution in the UK

Public Law

TABLE OF CONTENT
TABLE OF CONTENT...................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Public law basically is the law that is related to the relationship that exist between the
individuals and the government of the country. The law basically comprises of all the laws that
relates to the administration of the country, criminal acts of the country and also the laws that are
related to the taxation. This law have very significant importance as there exist unequal
relationship between that of the government of the country with its individuals as more powers
are given to the government and only rights have been assigned to the individuals1. The
government of the country is authorised to make laws that helps in the governance of the nation
and the individuals have to abide by it. If any individual is not happy with any of the decision so
made by the government, they can always ask for judicial reviews.
The aim of this essay is to make an evaluation that whether the constitution which is
codified in the best option to make reform in the UK constitution or not.
MAIN BODY
The law of constitution mainly is the law that helps in defining the duties, responsibilities,
powers, position, structure, etc. of various different kind of entities that exist within the nation.
These entities may be judiciary, legislative authorities, administrative bodies, parliament, etc. in
the whole world there are many countries of which many of them have written constitution, like
United States (US), but few countries like United Kingdom (UK), do not have a written
constitution.
Even though the constitution of the UK is not written, it still have many other principles
which are followed by the nation. The supreme court of the UK recognises four such principles
and also the statutes that helps in giving the proper shape to the powers assigned to the political
parties. In UK there are three main sources which are considered i.e. the acts which are made by
the parliament, the decisions of the court which are commonly termed as “precedents” and lastly
the conventions. All these sources helps in the proper governance of the country2.
Many a times there has been a debate over the codified constitution. Many argued that UK
needs to have codified/written constitution. But, UK never really felt the need of it. The best part
1 Gordon M, 'Brexit: A Challenge For The UK Constitution, Of The UK Constitution?' (2016) 12 European
Constitutional Law Review
2 Harvey M, 'CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION: How Nationalist Parties In Regional Government Are
Bringing Change To The UK Constitution' (2019) 8 Federal Governance