UPDATED ESSAY PLANS

Is the SC neutral and independent

• P1: 2005 CRA ensures neutrality + experts vs social representation

• P2: SCM 2009 ensures independence vs increasing P criticism and P is sovereign

• P3: Neutrality questioned over key cases + increasingly political vs upholding sovereignty and don’t take political cases

Does the Sc have too much influence

• P1: Unrepresentative and unelected vs 2005 CRA

• P2: SC role in interpreting HRs leg limiting a democratically elected govt vs P has sovereignty

• P3: Judicial review undermines parliament vs upholding and wont take political cases

Location of sovereignty has changed since 1997

• P1: Devolution

• P2: The EU

• P3: The Exec and parliament OR Popular Sovereignity and the SC

Changes in recent decades has limited Exec dominance over parliament

• P1: Wrights Reforms (select comittees and BBB) vs still whipped and govt dominates legislative agenda

• P2: New lab reforms and recent to HOL removed inbuild conservative majority + expertise and time to scrutinise vs lack legislative power and salisbury and parliament act

• P3: Increasing unpopularity of govts + minorities increases opposition power vs not the case under strong governments

EVTV that leaving the EU has increased parliament sovereignty

• P1: No longer a higher court to strike down leg vs Sovereignty over NI

• P2: Parliament can legislate on issues the Eu had control over vs lost pooled sovereignty, global influence and under EU it held many of its legislative powers anyway

• P3: The Sovereignty regained by the EU is excercised by the exec (secondary leg and trade agreements) vs the process of Brexit strengthened parliament sovereignty (SC)