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FOCUS OF THE DAY: Proposals to change the way the House of Lords scrutinises secondary legislation have been firmly rejected by a committee of Peers. The Strathclyde Review outlined three options for change. These were: no scrutiny at all by Lords; reframing an earlier convention to the effect that Lords’ ability to reject secondary legislation would be “left unused”; and new legislation removing Lords’ powers to reject secondary legislation but allowing them to ask the Commons to “think again”. Full story - New Law Journal
FOCUS OF THE DAY: Proposals to change the way the House of Lords scrutinises secondary legislation have been firmly rejected by a committee of Peers. The Strathclyde Review outlined three options for change. These were: no scrutiny at all by Lords; reframing an earlier convention to the effect that Lords’ ability to reject secondary legislation would be “left unused”; and new legislation removing Lords’ powers to reject secondary legislation but allowing them to ask the Commons to “think again”. Full story - New Law Journal
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