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Posted on February 25 2013 | Comments (0)
On January 23, 2013 the Catalan Parliament adopted the Declaration of Sovereignty and Right to Decide of the Catalan People.[1] The Declaration proclaims ‘the people of Catalonia’ to be ‘a sovereign political and legal subject’ with a ‘right to decide … their collective political future’.
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Debates leading up to the creation of the Scottish parliament demonstrated the huge potential to galvanise thinking about political change and the promotion of gender equality. However, women's voices and issues of gender equality and gender justice have been curiously absent from the current debates around constitutional futures in Scotland.
Posted on February 20 2013 | Comments (0)
Devolution created a constitutional difficulty for the civil service in Scotland – it irrevocably split the loyalties of Her Majesty’s civil servants.
Posted on February 12 2013 | Comments (6)
With the question now agreed for the Referendum, the Scottish Government published a plan on February 5th 2013 for what happens next – that is, between a Yes vote and the declaration of Independence in 2016. Significantly this outlines the parameters of drawing up a written constitution, a process that will begin post-independence.
Posted on February 01 2013 | Comments (1)
Countries that are used to referendums on constitutional matters use them sparingly. The UK has no such constitutional requirement, but faces the possibility of having to deal with two such referendums within the space of a few years.
Posted on February 01 2013 | Comments (0)
On Wednesday, the Electoral Commission published its much anticipated reports on the question to be asked in the 2014 independence referendum and on campaign spending limits.