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Legislation will be introduced, the Queen said last week, to ‘restore the balance of power between the executive, legislature and the courts’. That was a curious thing for the government to promise.
3 May 2021
Sir Jonathan Jones QC made headlines last year when he resigned as Treasury Solicitor over a row with Downing Street about the Brexit withdrawal agreement. So Obiter eagerly tuned into a Public Law Wales event a couple of weeks ago to hear what Jones had to say about life in Whitehall.
As well as discussing Brexit, the former head of the Government Legal Department discussed the Faulks report on judicial review (‘I think the government was reacting to a relatively small number of quite symbolic cases’) and was asked what Whitehall really thinks about devolution (‘There is a view that the UK civil service is very London-centric and very Whitehall-centric and does not think enough about devolution. I think that’s fair.’).