Conventions are a non-legal source of the UK constitution and tend to govern the relationships between the branches of State – executive (Crown and Government), legislature and judiciary. They are not enforced by the courts and importance above some laws.
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Public Law.Conventions are a non-legal source of the UK constitution; they are not set down in a formalised written format. Conventions tend to govern the relationships between the branches of State - executive (both Crown and Government), legislature and judiciary. The other set of rules consist of conventions, understandings, habits or practices which, though they may regulate the conduct of several members of the sovereign power, of the Ministers, or of other officials, are not in reality laws at all since they are not enforced by the courts. Moodie have said that a convention is a non-legal rule of constitutional behaviour which has been consistently accepted by those affected by it as binding on them, but which is not enforceable in the courts. The convention of Individual Ministerial Responsibility implies also that a Minister should resign if there have been serious policy or administrative errors in department or if minister has been guilty of serious personal misconduct.