Comp 2: Relationships Between Branches

Question 1

Limits to Supreme Court power - dissolution and calling of Parliament act 2022

Answer 1

• introduced to repeal FTPA 2011
• it removed power of SC like power of reviewing dissolution of parliament, PMs power
• SC is non-justiciable
• Parliament has limited SC

Question 2

Supreme Court ruling Safety of Rwanda unlawful - protects laws only if law does and if parliament doesn’t change law to fit its policy

Answer 2

1. 2022 Rwanda Act to relocate illegal asylum seekers
2. SC ruled it unlawful, against the HRA and Rwanda ‘unsafe’
3. Govt changed ruling but SC upheld ruling that policy was against domestic and international law
4. A new treaty was drafted Dec 2023 with clearer guarantees of treatment of individuals.
5. Govt introduced Safety of Rwanda Bill which gained royal assent and considered a safe country
   - international law out aside to allow deportation, removing individual right to judicial review.

Question 3

Makeup of Supreme Court

Answer 3

• president Lord Reed
• 12 justices
• 10 male
• 11 white
• 11 Oxbridge
• 12 over 60
• 1 woman is Lady Simler

Question 4

Sewel convention and parl sov

Answer 4

• SC - parl shouldn’t legislate of devolved matters without devolved assemblies concent
• public services is developed matter but uk passed Strikes (minimum service levels) act 2023 without Scot and Welsh consent
• withdrawal agreement opposed by all devolved assemblies
• parl is still sovereign

Question 5

Safety of Rwanda - Parl Sov

Answer 5

• ignored emergency rulings against act by ECHR
• international law put aside
• make or unmake any law an prevent judicial review of particular bts of legislation

Question 6

Govt cancelling northern leg of HS2 without parl approval

Answer 6

• 2023 govt cancelled northern leg of HS2 development To use funds into other transport project in the north