Devolution, Law Making and the Constitution

This book represents the fruits of a four-year collaboration between top constitutional lawyers from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland and leading researchers in UCL's Constitution Unit. The book opens with detailed studies of law making in the period 1999-2004 in the Scottish Parliament and the Assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland, and how they interact with Westminster. Later contributions look at aspects of legislative partnership in the light of the UK's asymmetric devolutionary development and also explain the impact of devolution on the courts. Further chapters examine the interplay of continuity and change in political, administrative, and legal practice, and the competing pressures for convergence and divergence.