Tag Archives: Parliamentary sovereignty
Dawn Oliver: Parliamentary Sovereignty: A Pragmatic or Principled Doctrine?
Imagine that Parliament has recently passed a provision authorising the indefinite detention without trial of suspected terrorists. The measure was passed during a public panic about terrorism. Public opinion and the press and parliamentarians of the party in government which … Continue reading
Filed under Judiciary, UK Parliament
Jeffrey Goldsworthy: Parliamentary Sovereignty’s Premature Obituary
At the end of a long review of my book Parliamentary Sovereignty, Contemporary Debates (CUP, 2010, hereafter PS), Vernon Bogdanor concludes that I have “suffered one of the worst fates that can befall a philosopher”: I have “become the prisoner … Continue reading
Filed under European Union, UK Parliament
Mike Gordon: The European Union Act 2011
The European Union Act 2011 (EUA) is an unprecedented constitutional experiment. This post will outline the two main innovations of the Act: (1) the section 18 ‘sovereignty’ clause; and (2) the scheme of ‘referendum locks’ introduced in sections 2, 3 … Continue reading
Filed under European Union, UK Parliament
Gordon Anthony: Axa – A view from Northern Ireland
It is a little over 6 weeks since the Supreme Court delivered its long-awaited ruling in Axa General Insurance v Lord Advocate [2011] UKSC 46. Although the ruling was of primary importance to Scottish law – see, for instance, its … Continue reading
Filed under Devolution, Northern Ireland, Scotland
Alison L. Young: Fixed-Term Parliaments and Neurath’s Ship
The UK constitution could be compared to Neurath’s ship. Unlike other countries, the UK cannot point to a single defining moment when a constitution was definitively ‘launched’, its provisions set out in one document named ‘Constitution’. The UK’s constitution has … Continue reading
Filed under UK Parliament
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