Unit 4 - AC1.1 Describe Processes Used For Law Making

Question 1

What are the 3 parts of parliament

Answer 1

House of commons
House of Lords
Monarchy

Question 2

How many mps are in parliament

Answer 2

650

Question 3

What are the members of the House of Lords called

Answer 3

Peers

Question 4

How many peers are there

Answer 4

800 and 95 hereditary peers

Question 5

What is the role of the monarch

Answer 5

To give royal assent to pass the law

Question 6

What’s a bill

Answer 6

A proposal for a new law

Question 7

What does a new law have to be aproved by before it is an act of parliament

Answer 7

House of Commons lords and monarch

Question 8

What’s a green paper

Answer 8

The initial report to provoke public discussion

Question 9

What’s a white paper

Answer 9

The detailed plan intended to be put before parliament

Question 10

What are the 6 parliamentary stages

Answer 10

First reading / second reading/ committee stage / report stage / third reading / royal assent

Question 11

What’s the first reading

Answer 11

Name and main aims, formal vote is taken

Question 12

What is the second reading

Answer 12

The main principles are debated and another vote held

Question 13

What is the committee stage

Answer 13

Bill is examined in detail by a small committee of MPs and reported back to the house for amendments

Question 14

What is the Report stage

Answer 14

MPs debate and vote on amendments

Question 15

What is the third reading

Answer 15

Final debate, cannot change anything, pass the bill or reject

Question 16

What is the royal assent

Answer 16

Once passed both houses the monarch signs the bill to make it an act of parliament

Question 17

What are the 2 processes that mean judges can make laws too

Answer 17

Judicial precedent and statutory interpretation

Question 18

What’s a judicial precedent

Answer 18

Where past decisions by judges create laws for future judges to follow

Question 19

What does the judicial precedent (JP) help

Answer 19

Create fairness and consistency in the legal system and created the common law

Question 20

What’s common law

Answer 20

A ser of laws common to the whole country

Question 21

What is the court hierarchy system

Answer 21

Supreme Court / crown-appeal-high etc court / tribunals-magistrates court

Question 22

What are the 2 exceptions to the Jp

Answer 22

Distinguishing and overruling

Question 23

What is distinguishing

Answer 23

If the legal principle and facts are different enough from the earlier case so a different decision can be reached and don’t have to follow the earlier precident

Question 24

What is overruling

Answer 24

When a court higher up overturns an earlier case of it’s wrong such as at an appeal

Question 25

What is statutory interpretation

Answer 25

The way that the judge interprets the statues/ acts of parliament

Question 26

What is a statue

Answer 26

A written law

Question 27

What are the 3 main interpretation rules

Answer 27

The literal rule / the golden rule / the mischief rule

Question 28

What is the literal rule

Answer 28

Judges use the everyday, dictionary meaning but there can be plural dictionary meanings

Question 29

What the golden rule

Answer 29

Allowing the modification of the literal meaning to avoid an absurd result

Question 30

What’s the mischief rule

Answer 30

When the court can enforce what the statue was intended to achieve not what thwarted words actually say