The Constitution After Scott

Government Unwrapped

Adam Tomkins (Lecturer in Law, Lecturer in Law, King's College, London)

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Oxford University Press
01 March 1998

Constitution: government & the state; Central government policies; Arms trade; Constitutional & administrative law

"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."

By: Adam Tomkins (Lecturer in Law Lecturer in Law King's College London)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 459g
ISBN: 9780198262909
ISBN 10: 0198262906
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 01 March 1998
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: 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 Constitution

Adam Tomkins has been a lecturer in law at King's College, London since 1991.

Reviews for The Constitution After Scott: Government Unwrapped

essential 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.