Category Archives: Constitutional reform
Mark Elliott: The Brighton Declaration: where now for the Human Rights Act and the Bill of Rights debate?
The Brighton Declaration, which emerged from last week’s High Level Conference on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights, has already attracted a substantial amount of comment—including by Noreen O’Meara on this Blog and Ed Bates on the … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, England, Human rights
Noreen O’Meara: Brighton rocked! Next steps for reforming the European Court of Human Rights
A blaze of controversy erupted over the disputed timing of Abu Qatada’s referral request to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights this week. Whilst raising a juicy legal question for proceduralists (examined incisively here and here) … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, Human rights
Helen Fenwick: An appeasement approach in the European Court of Human Rights?
This piece asks whether, in the light of UK proposals for the reform of the ECtHR, and in the wake of the outcry in the UK over the Qatada decision (Othman v UK), the Court is taking an approach that … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, Human rights
UKCLG meeting: The referendum in the United Kingdom, 21 May 2012, 6 pm
UK Constitutional Law Group’s next meeting is on “The Referendum in the United Kingdom” (The 7th Italian-British Constitutional Conversation) Monday 21 May 2012, 6 pm Italian Cultural Institute of London, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX Foreword: Alessandro TORRE , … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, Devolution, Events
Jacob Rowbottom: Cash for access and the problems of party funding
Following the Sunday Times cash for access sting, political parties are reported to be putting negotiations on reforming party funding on the fast track. Such discussions among the parties do not have a good record of success. The breakdown … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, Human rights, UK Parliament
Colin Harvey: Engaging With Human Rights in a Disunited Kingdom
The world is saturated with the normative discourse of rights. Rights-talk is to be found almost everywhere; in sugary political speeches, in legal texts, and in the pleas of those experiencing abuse and those advocating on their behalf. Complex societies … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, Human rights
Mark Elliott: The draft Brighton Declaration, the Human Rights Act, and the Bill of Rights debate
As Noreen O’Meara has already posted, a draft of the Brighton Declaration concerning reform of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has leaked into the public domain. Of course, that draft may well turn out to be substantially different … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, Human rights
Kate Malleson: Taking the politics out of judicial appointments?
Seven years after the judicial appointments process was completely refashioned under the provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (CRA), the system is being looked at again. In November, the Ministry of Justice issued a consultation paper on ‘Judicial Appointments … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, Judiciary
Nick Barber: The Sophick Constitution
With the United Kingdom facing severe financial hardship – and some European countries even facing bankruptcy – we should consider all potential solutions to our problems, however unorthodox. In The Sophick Constitution (1700) an anonymous pamphleteer advances a proposal that … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, UK government
Jack Simson Caird: A Report on the United Kingdom Constitution Law Group Seminar: ‘From Constitutional Scrutiny to Constitutional Review: Ten Years of the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution’
A UK Constitutional Law Group seminar on the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution took place in Parliament on 25 January. The three speakers were: Lord Norton of Louth (Current member and the first Chairman of the Constitution … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, UK Parliament
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