TY - RPRT
AU - Beatson, Jack
AU - Farrell, Anne-Maree
AU - Feldman, David
AU - Fox, Ruth
AU - Grogan, Joelle
AU - Hickman KC, Tom
AU - Hussey, Ruth
AU - King, Jeff
AU - de Londras, Fiona
AU - Patel, Lord
AU - Patel, Reema
AU - Wagner, Adam
AU - White, Hannah
PY - 2024
DA - May
TI - Independent Commission on UK Public Health Emergency Powers
AB - The Independent Commission on UK Public Health Emergency Powers reviewed emergency public health laws and parliamentary procedures in the four UK nations. We considered how far these laws and procedures could be enhanced so as to better protect the rule of law and promote accountability, transparency and parliamentary control of executive action. We also undertook comparative research; reviewing public health emergency powers in ten foreign jurisdictions chosen because of their similarities to the UK’s parliamentary system and the efficacy of their legal responses to Covid-19. Throughout our inquiry we kept foremost in our minds the need for governments to act quickly in an emergency to secure timely and effective public health outcomes.
PB - British Institute of International and Comparative Law
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/92b51863-c260-455c-bc56-7ae3c0d86d44
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER