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Overview"This book provides a thorough and authoritative account of the constitutional implications of the Scott report. It is the only book-length treatment of this pivotal Report. The Scott report was established by John Major in 1992 to look into British government policy during the 1980s with regard to trade (including the arms trade) with Iraq and to establish whether the Government had lied to Parliament about its policy. Scott also investigated a number of high-profile and controversial criminal prosecutions which the government brought against several companies that were accused of illegally exporting ""defence equipment"" to Iraq. All of these cases failed. This book does more than merely relate the Scott story. It offers a full analysis of what the report means for the future of constitutional government, and constitutional reform, in Britain. Issues of lying to Parliament and ministerial responsibility; of the regulation and control of the civil service; and of open government and freedom of information are all reappraised in the light of Scott's discoveries. Central questions of secret intelligence and troublesome ""public interest immunity certificates"" are also considered. Unusually for a political scandal, Scott was not an exclusively national affair affecting only one country. There was a little-known equivalent to the Scott inquiry in the USA, and the lessons of the US experience are also discussed here - for the first time in Britain." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adam Tomkins (Lecturer in Law, Lecturer in Law, King's College, London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.459kg ISBN: 9780198262909ISBN 10: 0198262906 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 26 February 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Constitutional Importance of Scott Part I: Government and Parliament 1: Ministers and Parliament 2: The Civil Service 3: Freedom of Information Part II: Government and Secret Intelligence 4: Governing without Intelligence Part III: Government and Courts 5: Public Interest Immunity Part IV: The American Connection 6: Iraqgate: The American Equivalent of Scott 7: Implications of the Iraqgate Story Conclusion: Reforming the Parliamentary ConstitutionReviewsessential reading for 'all students of the British constitution or the British government'... the book provides a detailed analysis of the substance of the inquiry into the export of arms to Iraq and the Matrix Churchill case and the subsequent report by Sir Richard Scott. / Diana Woodhouse, Parliamentary Affairs, April 1999. Tomkins is to be congratulated on producing a succinct description of some of the salient features of one of the most important episodes of recent British constitutional history .../ Ivan Hare, The Cambridge Law Journal, 1998. Author InformationAdam Tomkins has been a lecturer in law at King's College, London since 1991. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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