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The law-making process in England and Wales
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This course was written by Roland Fletcher.

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Activity 4: extracts from: All Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health (2011)

5.2 Pressure groups: extracts in Activity 4: used with permission of Action on Smoking and Health

7.1 So, why do we have delegated legislation?: article in Activity 8: © Pywell, S. (2013) ‘Untangling the Law’, Miller, J, New Law Journal, 163(7553), pp. 321–322, 2013 Reed Elsevier (UK) Ltd.

8.1 Devolution in Wales: quote in Box 2: Parliament. UK, 22 Jul 1997: Column 757. Welsh Assembly www.parliament.uk Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v1.0

Box 2: extracts from: Davies, R. (1997) ‘Welsh Assembly’, www.publications.parliament.uk/

8.2 The call for a Welsh Assembly: quote: The Constitution Unit, School of Public Policy (1997) Commentary on the Welsh White Paper, © University College London. [Online] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/publications/unit-publications/15.pdf

8.3 The creation of the Welsh Assembly: extract in Activity 9: Copyright 2011 Oxford University Press and New York University School of Law

Activity 9: Copyright 2011 Oxford University Press and New York University School of Law. (Leyland, 2011, pp. 260–2)

Leyland, P. (2011) extract from: ‘The multifaceted constitutional dynamics of UK devolution’, Oxford University Press (2011). Courtesy of Peter Leyland

Course image: photo: Ricardo Andre Frantz (Wikipedia) made available under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Figure 3: ©Dreamstime.com/Pablo Caridad

Figure 4 (left): © House of Commons

Figure 4 (right): © Parliamentary copyright House of Lords 2014/Paul Milsom. Covered under creative commons licence CC BY-NC 2.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

Figure 6: Passage of a Bill © Parliamentary Copyright. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v1.0. http://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/open-parliament-licence/

Figure 7: Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v1.0

Figure 8: © Shutterstock.com/Volina

Figure 9: © Matthew Dixon/Shutterstock

Activities 1,2 3, 6, and Tour of House of Commons, and Section 6: Draft Bills: Parliamentary ©. Used under the Open Parliament Licence, http://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/open-parliament-licence/

Activity 10: National Assembly of Wales, http://www.assembly.wales/

8. Devolution – Transfer of Powers:

Election 2010 extract from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/first_time_voter/8589835.stm (c) BBC 2010

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