A Treatise on the Locus Standi of Petitioners Against Private Bills in Parliament (Classic Reprint)
A Treatise on the Locus Standi of Petitioners Against Private Bills in Parliament (Classic Reprint)

Author: James Mellor Smethurst

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9780331799965

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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Locus Standi of Petitioners Against Private Bills in Parliament In the last session of Parliament, however, the Court of Referees was appointed by the House of Commons to consider and decide upon various questions relating to private bills, and (inter alia) as to the locus stcmdi of parties petitioning against them; and now a decision on this point is some to before the merits of the bill itself are taken into con sideration. This has, of course, greatly curtailed the expense of all parties, whether promoting or opposing private bills; and, although it is doubtful at present whether the powers of the referees will be enlarged or reduced, it seems perfectly settled that all questions of locus stamdi will continue to be decided by them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Local Government, Local Legislation
Local Government, Local Legislation

Author: R.J.B. Morris

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1315525364

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In the mid-Victorian period, when British international influence and power were at their height, concerns about local economic and social conditions were only slowly coming to be recognised as part of the obligations and expectations of central government. Adopting a legal history perspective, this study reveals how municipal authorities of this period had few public law powers to regulate local conditions, or to provide services, and thus the more enterprising went direct to Parliament to obtain – at a price – the passing specific local Bills to address their needs. Identifying and analysing for the first time the 335 local Parliamentary Bills promoted by local authorities in the period from the passing of the Local Government Act 1858 to the first annual report of the Local Government Board in 1872, the book draws three main conclusions from this huge mass of local statute book material. The first is that, far from being an uncoordinated mass of inconsistent, quixotic provisions, these Acts have a substantial degree of cohesion as a body of material. Second, the towns and cities of northern England secured more than half of them. Thirdly, the costs of promotions (and the vested interests involved in them) represented a huge and often wasteful outlay that a more pragmatic and forward-looking Parliamentary attitude could have greatly reduced.