Introduction to Law: UK Constitution, Powers, and Independence

This essay provides an overview of the introduction to law, focusing on the UK's constitutional framework. It explores the separation of powers among the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches, highlighting their roles and responsibilities. The essay discusses sovereignty, parliament's supremacy, and the impact of EU law on the UK legal system. It examines key legislation, such as the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and the Royal Assent Act 1961, and analyzes the independence of the judiciary. Furthermore, it delves into the binding nature of EU law and the role of Parliament in the formation of laws and policies. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of adherence to laws and policies for maintaining order and achieving positive outcomes within the UK legal system.

Introduction to law

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Law is discussed as important term which allows the nation to represent themselves in a
specific manner. The guidelines which are prepared by judiciary body is mandatory to be
followed and failure in this respective work can create huge issue for defaulter. On the other side,
it is unwritten constitution can be explained as the process in which ruling government takes
action to form effective principles which works as a law. The different area which are covered
within unwritten constitution are customs, convention, traditions and other essential laws which
are bearing differs dates.
In context of the file, there are some of the important topics which will be covered and
that will relate with separation of powers, sovereignty, rules of law and many more. While
addressing this points some of the important topic will be also focused like binding nature of EU
law and role of parliament, independence of the judiciary and many more.
MAIN BODY
In any of the nation, constitution has the huge role because it simply guides about the
work which is permissible to any of the specific person or organisation. In order to constitute
effective law and policy, power is required to be separated. In the similar manner, UK have
also divided their roles and responsibility among different bodies such as Judiciary, Executive
and Legislatives (Polinsky, 2018). Talking about Legislative body, it is among the important
body of government which has been given the responsibility to form laws and policies within the
premisses of UK. The laws which are being constituted by legislative body must be followed.
Talking about executive body, it is equally important organ because it helps to enforce the laws
and policies which are being enforced by legislative body. Even there is a huge importance of
executive body that they should be able to ensure that all of people follows those laws and
policies as per the given guidelines. Finally, Judiciary body which is also equally important
because for declaring any of the decision for the breach of law, judiciary body has to show their
importance. In any of the situation, this body do not allows to breach laws and regulation.
Knuller v DPP [1973] AC 435, London Street Tramways Co Ltd v London County Council
[1898] AC 375 are some of the important case law where role of judiciary body has been
important for declaring the result in possible time period (Nafziger, 2017). All of this body have
certain power where they can constitute some laws and policies through which decisions can be
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declared. This laws which are constituted by government must be followed although those are
unwritten constitution.
There was constitutional reform act 2005 which was mainly done for the purpose of
dividing power into multiple bodies. After this reform judges and supreme court obtain some of
the power where they can constitute laws and policies under common law for declaring any of
the judgement in UK which is quite important. This changes where necessary as well because
this would certain benefit UK in declaring favourable decision in any of the case. Also, this
reforms were important because it was the reform where it was decided that total 12 judges will
be appointed for supreme court who will not be allowed to changed in any of the circumstances
(Fahey, 2018). Talking about the independence of Judiciary, it was simply the principles where
higher level of power was given to judiciary body and none of the government body has the right
to interfere in their any of the decision. It was mainly done so that effective results can be
obtained within any of the case.
Parliament Supremacy means laws and policies which are formed by parliament body.
It is crucial for any of the individual to understand that laws and policies will be formed by
government bodies only. But, in context of UK the supreme power is with Parliament body
where they commences any of the law and no one has the right to overrule those laws and
policies and if that happens then legal action can be taken against the defaulter. In simple words,
sovereignty means the body which holds supreme power in the nation where no one case raise
question against it. Even Parliament body gives authority to different local government to
constitute unwritten laws, principles, convention and many more so that sovereignty can be
maintained. Also, any of the statutory law which are required to be passed must obtained
permission from House of Parliament. At the same time there is a law named as Royal Assent
Act, 1961 which simply explains that in any of the situation laws and policies which has been
formed by government must be follow the procedure where legal rights to commence law must
be obtained through the permission of Crowned head (Thirlway, 2019). This act simply means
that although passing any of the law will not be valid till the date of obtaining the permission.
But, at the same time, for forming any of the unwritten constitution, there is no requirement of
any sort of permission which is the positive side because it follows one of the lengthy procedure.
There are other treaties as well where government of UK has shown their interest and in
that particular situation it was found that power to EU law has been given where they are
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allowed to constitute laws and regulation for the premisses of UK. It was among the rule which
is quite important because it has made work easier for parliament body as laws which are
introduced by EU law are effective in nature allowed UK to maintain peace and silence within
the nation (Goldoni, 2019). The law which are constituted by the EU law are binding in nature
must be followed by each of the person. Only role which parliament has to play in the formation
of law EU law is that they are the body which needs to give final approval on the new law which
has been commenced. It is the only way through which effective law and policy can be formed.
All of this laws and policies says that although legislative, executive and judiciary are
the body which plays vital role but at the moment it different sources in UK which constitute
different types of principles and laws plays the vital role. In current scenario, those principles
and conventions have huge importance because it certainly allows to obtain positive outcomes
within the specific time period.
CONCLUSION
From the overall understanding from the file, it is concluded that laws and policies must
be followed and if in any of situation person fails to follow those laws and policies then huge
problem might occur. It is said that there are number of unwritten constitution laws and policies
which are being followed within the premisses of UK and they have been effective as well. It is
well understandable that the laws which has been constituted by government of UK are effective
in nature and even it has been helping the government to obtained effective results.
REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Polinsky, A. M., 2018. An introduction to law and economics. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
Goldoni, M., 2019. Introduction to the material study of global constitutional law. Global
Constitutionalism, 8(1), pp.71-93.
Thirlway, H., 2019. The sources of international law. Oxford University Press.
Fahey, E., 2018. Introduction: Institutionalisation beyond the nation state: new paradigms?
Transatlantic relations: data, privacy and trade law. In Institutionalisation beyond the
Nation State (pp. 1-27). Springer, Cham.
Nafziger, J. A., 2017. Introduction to comparative law and anthropology. In Comparative Law
and Anthropology. Edward Elgar Publishing.
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