Yong, B, Davies, G and Leston-Bandeira, C orcid.org/0000-0002-6131-4607 (2019) Tacticians, Stewards, and Professionals: The Politics of Publishing Select Committee Legal Advice. Journal of Law and Society, 46 (3). pp. 367-395. ISSN 0263-323X
Abstract
At Westminster, there are increasing pressures on select committees to publish in‐house legal advice. We suggest that examining the process of deciding to publish provides useful insights into the provision, reception, and use of legal advice, and the dynamics of select committees generally. We argue that the autonomy of select committees to decide what use they make of evidence and advice they receive is, in practice, constrained by the intra‐institutional dynamics and practices of select committees. Committee actors – parliamentarians, clerks, and parliamentary lawyers – each have overlapping, sometimes competing, roles. Most of the time, these roles and the responsibilities they encompass coincide, but the prospect of publication reveals clear tensions between the different actors. This is the politics of publication: the tactical approach of politicians is in tension with the stewardship of clerks and the professional norms of parliamentary lawyers. We suggest this tension will only increase in the near future.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. Journal of Law and Society published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Cardiff University (CU). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, pr To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | legal advice; Westminster; select committees |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust RPG-2016-388 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2019 10:21 |
Last Modified: | 02 Sep 2019 10:41 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/jols.12153 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145392 |