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Parliamentary law making - Coggle Diagram

- - - - To honour manifesto promises
      - Response to specific matter or concern
      - To comply with international treaty
      - Following recommendation by law reform body
  - - - Successful if its not opposed
- - - - Legislative process
        
        First reading
        
        Second reading
        
        Commitee stage
        
        Report stage
        
        Third reading
        
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- - - - Acts of parliament can set broad policy for government ministers and departments and can grant powers to others to create secondary legislation.
        
        Made democratically by elected representatives in the HOC who are therefore democratically accountable.
        
        Very few of Private member bills are successful, unless they have government backing they are unlikely to be given sufficient parliamentary time.
      - Private members bills are good as they allow individual MPs to raise important issues on behalf of their constituents.
      - Public opinion (media) can be successful and effective in drawing attention to certain issues and allow the gov to respond.
      - Pressure groups can be successful in raising the profile of an issue but few are successful at getting law changed. Fathers for justice and Stone wall.
      - Judicial decisions - offer legal expertise but can be costly and time - consuming
- - - - Individual MPs are rarely successful at introducing Bills
      - Acts of parliament are complex to create and apply. Issues dealt with by the court with interpretation may not have been envisaged at the drafting stage.
      - Very few of Private member bills are successful, unless they have government backing they are unlikely to be given sufficient parliamentary time
    - - Pressure groups have limited success, problems arise when two pressure groups have conflicting interests and want opposing things.
      - Special interest groups - Can have the benefit of expertise, but can have indue interests and want opposing things.
    - - Can be difficult to reflect public opinion in a diverse pluralist society.
      - Royal commissions offer flexibility and expertise but can be costly and time consuming.
      - Law commission - despite early success rates and the promise of major reforms through codification, problems with a lack of political will to devote legislative time to their proposals as well as issues with work load and budgetary constraints.
        
        Assaults and Other Offences Against The Person - the Law Commission proposed changes in 1993 as the old law dated back to 1861 and was confusing. Draft Bill published in 1998 but not put before Parliament and still not reformed.