Category Archives: Wales
Tarun Khaitan: How to interpret Constitutional Statutes?
Most of us will be aware of the famous remarks of Lord Justice Laws in Thoburn v Sunderland City Council (2002) that constitutional statutes are immune from implied repeal, and therefore somewhat entrenched against Parliament. The issue of the entrenchment … Continue reading
Filed under Devolution, Judicial review, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
Christine Bell: Bills of Rights and Devolution: From the Universal to the Particular.
‘To produce one Bill of rights may be regarded as a misfortune. To produce eight, looks like carelessness’. This blog picks up on Nicholas Barber’s blog of September 11, 2011. There he sketched the complicated options for taking a human … Continue reading
Filed under Constitutional reform, Devolution, Human rights, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK Parliament, Wales
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