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Describe the roles of the house’s of commons and houses of lord’s and the crown in the process of statute creations in the United Kingdom.  

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Law Task: describe the roles of the house's of commons and houses of lord's and the crown in the process of statute creations in the United Kingdom. Statutes are made by parliament; parliament consists of the House of Lords, the House of Commons and the monarchy. Parliament is the highest source of English law and all bills that are passed have to be certified by parliament. Stages of making a statute. All statutes begin as bills, this is a proposal for a piece of legislation, and there are 3 different types of bill. * Public Bills: cabinet makes these sort of bills to attempt to change the general law of the country, they are then preceded by green paper which is a consulting piece of paper which put forward proposals, if any party is interested they can listen to it and give there own views * Private Members' Bill: these bills are made by members of...

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