PLM Pros and Cons

• ADVANTAGES OF PLM

  • Consultation and resources
  • Can change whole areas of law at once
  • Democratic process
  • Bills must be checked by 3 groups
• DISADVANTAGES OF PLM

  • Acts can be complex
  • Lengthy process
  • Limited time for law making
  • Against the separation of powers
• ADVANTAGE

  P: Consultation and resources

  E: national polls

  E: extending drinking hours in pubs

  L: effective laws
• ADVANTAGE

  P: Can change whole areas of law at once

  E: saves time

  E: Fraud Act 2006

  L: rectify large scale problems
• ADVANTAGE

  P: Democratic process

  E: elected MPs

  E: The Poll Tax 1989

  L: reflect public opinion
• ADVANTAGE

  P: bills checked by 3 groups

  E: thoroughly reviewed

  E: Hunting Act 2004

  L: accepted by public
• DISADVANTAGE

  P: complex Acts

  E: ambiguous language

  E: Offences Against the Person Act 1861

  L: uncertainty in the Law
• DISADVANTAGE

  P: lengthy process

  E: lots of stages

  E: many bills fail

  L: slow to update the Law
• DISADVANTAGE

  P: limited time for making law

  E: Parliament has a lot to legislate on

  E: 1993 Law Commission Report on OAPA 1861

  L: some problems never rectified
• DISADVANTAGE

  P: Against the Separation of Powers

  E: Government not the legislature

  E: 2016 to 2017, 25 government bills

  L: powerful executive