Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Monday, October 12, 2009

Video on UK Supreme Court

Tucker Barton pointed out that the judicial changes in Britain began last summer. Karmin Tomlinson pointed out this bit of video at YouTube that helps explain the changes, and might help students understand the constitutional changes.

The Law Lords of the House of Lords did indeed stop hearing appeals last July 30, as the new UK Supreme Court prepared to assume the role of highest appellate court. This video is an interview with one of the Law Lords, Lord Vance, about his and the Law Lords' role in government. BTW, Alan Carter confirmed that all but one of the new Supreme Court justices are former Law Lords.






In the process of looking at this video, I also found some others, produced by Parliament that might be helpful.

A 2-minute video titled The Role of an MP.

A 4-minute video titled, The House of Lords: What's it all about?

Another titled, Making Laws: How a law is made.

And for comparative purposes, the Schoolhouse Rocks classic, How a bill becomes a law.



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