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The Constitution After Scott - Government Unwrapped (Paperback)
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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.
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