This article explores the question of devolution in the light of the Covid‐19 pandemic's impact on English local government. Criticism of the government's handling of the crisis is widespread and tends to focus on the highly centralised nature of the British state. Here, we attribute the challenges faced by regional and local government in responding to the pandemic primarily to the asymmetric nature of power relations that characterise financial planning and control mechanisms, devised and overseen by the Treasury. We argue that the ongoing crisis underlines the need for a democratic form of devolution—including further fiscal powers for regional and local government—to support the economic recovery. In a context of increasing fiscal uncertainty, the Treasury should seek to unlock the existing powers of local leaders by reforming centralised budgetary constraints and taking accountability and monitoring mechanisms closer to citizens.
Procedural Delay in California HE subject of procedural delay is one that has attracted a great deal of popular attention for many years. Magazine articles often treat of cases in which justice delayed is justice denied, but none of them seem based on accurate information as to whether the cases they describe are the exception or the rule. To determine this question, the writer has made an examination of some 20,000 cases filed in the Superior Courts for San Francisco, Sacramento, and Yolo counties, the San Francisco Justices' Court, and the Federal Court for the Northern District of California. The cases examined comprise all those filed in these courts during 1913, which was selected as a typical year and one sufficiently prewar to permit the great majority of cases filed in it to reach judgment unaffected by war conditions. Tables I and IP give a general idea of the results of this I TALE I The Average Time in months required for a Case to reach Issue and Judgment in the different Courts.
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