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As United Kingdom is one of the member of the European Union, European legislation creates the English law, and it has the power to create rules and regulations which apply in its member states. Sources of the European Union law include Primary Sources (Treaties), Secondary Sources, Directives, Decisions and Recommendations and Opinions (Cited in lecture notes, 2017). One example is that the Human Rights Act incorporates the main provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. Besides, the European Communities Act 1972 provided that Community law should be directly in the UK courts (Macintyre E, 2014, p28). If the English law is in conflict with European legislation, held that “the power of the UK courts to suspend conflicting …show more content…

As the highest form of legal authority, Acts of (Westminster) Parliament, which could also be called as statutes, is the second source of English law. Firstly, it is responsible of consolidating, amending and codifying acts. Secondly, if the parliament does not have free time or technical knowledge, it could delegate the responsibilities to other authorities such as ministries and agencies, which is known as the secondary legislation system. Statutory instrument, Orders in Council and Bye-Laws are three forms of delegated legislation. The delegated legislation could carry the full force of the law; however, any domestic court could declare that the legislation is invalid. For example, Parliamentary draft-men draw a Bill up, then it needs to proceed the Reading for three times in House of Commons, and repeat the whole process in House of Lords. After completing these steps, it would be given a royal assent and then it could become a statute (Macintyre E, 2014, p8). The examples for the Parliament to consolidate, amend and codify acts are “The major codifications in English law have been the Bills of Exchange Act 1882, the

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