Paragraph 1 - ✔✔✔Modernisation
Modernisation - ✔✔✔Independece of the judiciary
Independence of the Judiciary - ✔✔✔Constitutional reform act 2005
Constitutional reform act 2005 - ✔✔✔Supreme Court established, senior judiciary is genuinely
independent of government - brings UK closer to modern conceptions of democracy
Paragraph 2 - ✔✔✔Lack of democratisation
Lack of democratisation - ✔✔✔Failure to significantly reform the House of Lords
Failure to significantly reform the House of Lords - ✔✔✔House of Lords act 1999
House of Lords act 1999 - ✔✔✔Set to remove all hereditary peers, but 92 still remain and none are
elected
Paragraph 3: - ✔✔✔Increased protection of human rights
Increased protection of human rights - ✔✔✔Human rights act of 1998 & Freedom of Information Act
2000
Human rights act of 1998 - ✔✔✔Most significant development since bill of rights 1689, incorporating
European convention on human rights into UK Law