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Beyond UKIMA: Challenges for Devolved Policy-Making in the Post-Brexit Era
Tom Hannant 
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Gareth Evans ,
Simon Hoffman ,
Victoria Jenkins ,
Karen Morrow
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Gareth Evans ,
Simon Hoffman ,
Victoria Jenkins ,
Karen Morrow
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
Swansea University Authors:
Tom Hannant , Gareth Evans , Simon Hoffman , Victoria Jenkins , Karen Morrow
Abstract
From inception to implementation, the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA) has contributed to the considerable tension between UK and devolved institutions which has characterised the period since the Brexit referendum in 2016. This commentary will consider how this tension permeates a nu...
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From inception to implementation, the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA) has contributed to the considerable tension between UK and devolved institutions which has characterised the period since the Brexit referendum in 2016. This commentary will consider how this tension permeates a number of policy areas and how it affects devolved law and policy making. We shall focus on three discrete areas of law and policy: constitutional reform, human rights, and environmental protection. The unifying theme – as elsewhere in this special issue – is the aforementioned tension between UK and devolved institutions and the challenges faced by devolved institutions in pursuit of their policy goals. Some of these tensions and challenges – especially in the case of environmental protection – arise directly from the implementation of UKIMA. Others do not arise from UKIMA itself, but rather reflect the breadth of the tension and political divergence between UK and devolved executives which have arisen – or at least been exacerbated – since 2016, as well as the centralising tendency which dominates approaches to devolution at the UK level in that period. |
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