Constitutional Reform
Delays to firearms licensing are set to reach record highs causing significant complications for certificate holders according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Covid restrictions, regulatory medical involvement and a peak in firearms licensing renewals has caused mass disruption across licensing departments in England and Wales. In… Read more »
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
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Constitutional affairs minister Harriet Harman has said she feels the attorney general and the cabinet must be kept separate to promote public trust. The role as the chief legal advisor of the Crown in England and Wales is currently filled by Lord Goldsmith, for whom Ms Harman says she has “nothing but respect for”. However… Read more »
The Freedom of Information Act is “mainly for the public”, the lord chancellor will say later today. Lord Falconer will criticise the number of requests for “trivial” information lodged by the press, saying the “people not the press must be the priority”. Delivering the Lord Williams of Mostyn memorial lecture tonight, the lord chancellor will… Read more »
