Parliamentary Sovereignty and Sources of Laws in UK

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PARLIAMENTAR
Y
SOVEREIGNTY
UNITED KINGDOM

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Table of Contents
TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................2
Sources of laws in UK................................................................................................................3
TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................9
Section 1......................................................................................................................................9
Difference between.....................................................................................................................9
Partnership Business...............................................................................................................10
Company as business...............................................................................................................12
Case 1........................................................................................................................................14
Case 2........................................................................................................................................16
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TASK 1
A) The statement “Every year the government announces its program for legislation by way
of the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament in October or November. Therefore, it
is commonly said that ‘Parliament is sovereign’" means that the formal start of the parliamentary
year is been marked by the opening of the State Parliament and the speech delivered by the
Queen is considered as the counterpace that highlights the full parliamentary year and also sets
the agendas, proposes the new policies, rules and legislations that the government are going to
follow in the coming session. This is the only event when all the important parts of the
parliament i.e. the Sovereign, the House of Lords and Commons gather together (Hayton, 2016).
This very occasion marks the beginning of a new parliamentary year and discovers new
ministries for settling down the upcoming battles. UK is believed to have an unwritten
constitution, but it is very different from that of USA and Germany because the Queen herself do
not write all the laws so made by her it’s the ministers who note down the larger parts of it. So it
will not be wrong to say that the constitution that is the major source of laws where are the
legislation which a nation has to follow along with all the recent amendments are partly written
and fully unmodified i.e. UK do not have a single written constitution. State opening is that main
ceremony held in the parliament which attracts a large crowd (Craig, 2018).
Parliamentary Sovereignty is also known as the supremacy of the parliament or legislative
supremacy which is an essential concept mentioned in the constitutional law of the democracies.
It is comprised of absolute sovereign legislative body as well as the executive and the judicial
bodies and here are some parliamentary sovereignty which are contrasted with separation of

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power that minimizes the scope of the legislature while making the general laws and taking
judicial actions, UK is considered one of its best example (Donnelly, 2015).
Sources of laws in UK
There are three separate legal systems in IK, out of them one is for England other for Wales and
last for Scotland and Northern Ireland. The legal concepts in UK includes the Constitution,
governing systems, process of the legislations, structures of courts and hierarchy, judiciary and
the appointments made by them, civil and criminal legislations which includes litigation, reports,
requirements of the evidence etc. (Barnett, 2017).
UK do not have a written constitution there is no single document which sets rights of the
individuals and ways in which a government must act. But there are three branches which are
identified as the crucial part of the constitution i.e. 1st executive comprised of monarch and other
ministers, civil servants and the members of the police and the armed forces, 2nd legislative
which is made up of House of Commons and House of Lords and the 3rd is the judiciary which is
comprised up of highly qualified judges in law, and magistrates. UK is a signatory of the
European Convention on Human Rights so it also tries to protect the Human Rights and the
persons breaching it would be taken to the domestic courts (Gelter, 2016).
Acts of parliament can thus be considered as the main source of law in UK because its
constitution is an unwritten one so many of its important elements are found in statutes that are
been enacted by the parliament. The most important civil and constitutional liberties are as
follows 1st Magna Carta which stated that government must work on the principles laid by the
governing body, 2nd Bill of Rights which imposes limitation on the powers of the monarch and
also asks for the regular meeting of the parliament, Settlement Acts prohibited Catholics from