Introduction: The Growth of Many Centuries Paul Evans Part I: The Man and his Milieu 1. A Sycophant of Real Ability: The Career of Thomas Erskine May William McKay 2. Slumber and Success: The House of Commons Library after May Oonagh Gay 3. Magi or Mandarins?: Contemporary Clerkly Culture Emma Crewe Part II: The Book 4. Persuading the House: The Use of the Commons Journals as a Source of Precedent Martyn Atkins 5. Manuals before May: From the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century David Natzler 6. Parliamentary Law in the Eighteenth Century: From Commonplace to Treatise Paul Seaward 7. From Manual to Authority: The Life and Times of the Treatise Paul Evans and Andrej Ninkovic 8. Controversy at the Antipodes (and Elsewhere): The International Cousins of the Treatise David Natzler, David Bagnall, Jean-Phillipe Brochu and Peter Fowler Part III: Procedural Development 9. The Principle of Progress: May and Procedural Reform William McKay 10. May on Money: Supply Proceedings and the Functions of a Legislature Colin Lee 11. A History of the Standing Orders Simon Patrick 12. Pursuing the Efficient Despatch of Business: The Role of Committees in Procedural Reform since 1900 Mark Egan 13. Finding Time: Legislative Procedure since May Jacqy Sharpe and Paul Evans Part IV: Select Committees 14. Where Did It All Go Right: Developments in Select Committees, 1913–1960 Mark Hutton 15. A Road not Taken: Select Committees and the Estimates, 1880–1904 Colin Lee Part V: The Lex Parliamentaria Revisited 16. Privilege: The Unfolding Debate with the Courts Eve Samson 17. Is the Lex Parliamentaria Really Law?: The House of Commons as a Legal System David Howarth
Landmark publication on the history of parliamentary procedure by anexpert and eminent group of lawyers, judges and parliamentary officers.
Paul Evans is Clerk of Committees in the House of Commons in Westminster.
... of interest to all parliamentary historians, those specialising
in legislative studies, and to anyone wanting to understand the
Westminster parliament ... scholarly and deeply informative ... a
significant contribution to parliamentary history.
*Parliamentary History*
The book exemplifies the clerkly culture that it discusses:
antiquarian interest, independence of thought, calm
open-mindedness, readiness to exercise judgment... a pleasing
addition to the series of Hart Studies in Constitutional Law.
Essays on the History of Parliamentary Procedure whets the appetite
for work on procedure and its implications with contributions from
a wider field.
*Cambridge Law Journal*
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