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Jemma Carpenter: Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to Windsor: Who defines King Charles’ constitutional role?

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In late February 2023, King Charles found himself embroiled in controversy for hosting Ursula von der Leyen, the President of […]

UKCLA March 27, 2023 Monarchy

Jeremy Letwin: The Bill of Rights Bill and the Modern Mirror Principle

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The Bill of Rights Bill which is currently before Parliament aims, at least in some respects, to weaken the link […]

UKCLA March 14, 2023 Bill of Rights Bill

Jed Meers, Joe Tomlinson, Alice Welsh and Charlotte O’Brien: Rights on Paper? The Discriminatory Effects of Digital Immigration Status on Private Landlord Decisions

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Under the EU settlement scheme, millions of EU, EEA and Swiss nationals have been granted “digital-only” immigration status. […]

UKCLA March 14, 2023 Brexit

Aileen Kavanagh:  Is the Illegal Migration Act itself illegal?  The Meaning and Methods of Section 19 HRA 

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The Illegal Migration Bill published on 7th March 2023 is one of the very few Bills in over 20 […]

UKCLA March 10, 2023 Constitutional Law, law-making

Events: Judicial Independence in Africa / Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago

Event 1: Judicial Independence in Africa – One Day Hybrid Conference (University of Leicester) The Global South Network […]

UKCLA March 10, 2023 Events

Event: Reimagining Public Law – Extended Call for PGR Papers

On 23 May 2023, the Centre for Employability, Professional Legal Education and Research at Birmingham Law School will hold a […]

UKCLA March 3, 2023 Events

Edmund Robinson: Re Allister and the entrenchment ‘road not taken’: A rejoinder to Kacper Majewski

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Kacper Majewski has written an excellent, thought-provoking, piece on the subject of constitutional statutes, in light of the Re Allister UK Supreme Court […]

UKCLA March 1, 2023 Constitutional Law, law-making

Event: Book Roundtable – The Making of Constitutional Democracy

Constitutional democracies around the world are in distress. Internal and external factors are putting pressure – and often […]

UKCLA February 24, 2023 Events

Announcement: Call for Guest Editors of Public Law’s Annual Themed Analysis Section

The Editorial Committee of Public Law invites Guest Editors to submit proposals for a themed set of ‘analysis’ papers to […]

UKCLA February 24, 2023 Announcement

James Robottom: The State’s Legal Duty to Hold an Independent Inquiry into the Mass Disappearance of Asylum Seeking Children in its Care

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The disappearance of hundreds of asylum seeking children out of Home Office run hotels is an issue of […]

UKCLA February 23, 2023 European Convention on Human Rights

Kacper Majewski: Re Allister: The End of ‘Constitutional Statutes’?

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On 8 February, the Supreme Court handed down its unanimous judgment in Re Allister [2023] UKSC 5. What follows is […]

UKCLA February 21, 2023 Constitutional Law, law-making

Event: Prisoner rights – Time for a rethink?

Call for abstracts Socio-Legal Studies Association Seminar We are pleased to invite abstracts for a Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) seminar […]

UKCLA February 17, 2023 Events

Anurag Deb: Direct Rule in Northern Ireland and the Power to Make Irrational Laws

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The townland of Carrickmore in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland is the ancestral home of legendary Nirvana frontman […]

UKCLA February 17, 2023 Devolution, Judicial review, Northern Ireland

Iain Halliday: Political and Legal Constitutionalism in the Age of Supreme Court Referrals

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Back in early 2013 I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the role of law and politics in the […]

UKCLA February 13, 2023 Devolution, Scotland

Karolina Szopa: Triumph for Abortion Rights, or a Trojan Horse? The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Northern Ireland) Bill and Proportionality Assessment

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Introduction On the 7 December 2022, the judgment of the UK Supreme Court in the Reference by the Attorney […]

UKCLA February 13, 2023 European Convention on Human Rights, Northern Ireland

Gordon Guthrie: Brown vs Dewar – The Labour Commission on the UK’s Future

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With the publication of Labour’s Commission on the UK’s Future it is worth contrasting the approach that Gordon […]

UKCLA February 8, 2023 Brown Commission, Constitutional reform, Devolution

Daniella Lock: UK Government Assessments of Risk to Refugees and ECHR Constraints on UK Immigration Policy in the Rwanda Ruling

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This post examines the High Court’s December ruling on the lawfulness of the UK Government’s Rwanda scheme. The […]

UKCLA February 7, 2023 European Convention on Human Rights, UK government

Conor Casey: House of Lords Constitution Committee Rejects Significant Reform to UK Law Officers

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Background to Inquiry on Role of Law Officers The Attorney General and Solicitor General are the UK government’s […]

UKCLA January 31, 2023 Constitutional reform

Event: Reimagining Public Law

Call for Papers from PGR Students On 23 May 2023, the Centre for Employability, Professional Legal Education and Research at […]

UKCLA January 27, 2023 Events

Robert Greally: The Brown Report: Political Legitimacy and the Power of the Assembly

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The Brown Commission has recommended replacing the House of Lords with an elected Assembly of the Nations and Regions of […]

UKCLA January 26, 2023 Brown Commission, Constitutional reform, UK Parliament

Tarun Khaitan: An Elected Second Chamber? Some Thoughts on the Brown Report

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One of the key recommendations of the Brown Commission is to replace the House of Lords with an […]

UKCLA January 25, 2023 Brown Commission, Constitutional reform, United Kingdom

Announcement: UKCLA Membership 2023: Please Renew or Join

Dear UKCLA members, Thank you for your support in 2022. I would like to invite all members to […]

UKCLA January 24, 2023 Announcement

Event: Empirical Contributions to Doctrinal Research

Call for Abstracts Law and legal scholarship have a problem digesting the sheer volume of decisions reached every […]

UKCLA January 20, 2023 Events

Announcement: UK Constitutional Law Blog Editorial Changeover

Professor Alison Young is stepping down as one of the editors of the UKCLA blog as of January […]

UKCLA January 19, 2023 Announcement

Event: The Form of Legislation and the Rule of Law

Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law Event – ‘The Form of Legislation and the Rule of Law’ […]

UKCLA January 13, 2023 Events

Event: Governance Reform in Small Jurisdictions – Challenges and Opportunities

Governance reform in small jurisdictions: challenges and opportunities January 17th 2023, 1-4pm (lunch served from 12pm) Centre for […]

UKCLA January 10, 2023 Events

Reminder: UKCLA Annual General Meeting and Round Table – Wednesday 18th January 2023

This is a reminder that the UKCLA Annual General Meeting will be held in person at 1.30pm on […]

UKCLA January 9, 2023 Announcement, UKCLA

Michael Foran: Sex, Gender, and the Scotland Act

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Yesterday, the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill was heard at Stage 3. If it receives royal assent, it […]

UKCLA December 21, 2022 Devolution, Scotland

Mohamed Moussa: The ‘Absent Word’ Canon and Asymmetrical Sovereignty

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Introduction: The Supreme Court’s Textual Fidelity  The UK Supreme Court (UKSC) recently issued its unanimous judgment which found the draft Scottish […]

UKCLA December 20, 2022 Devolution, Parliamentary sovereignty

UKCLA Annual General Meeting and Round Table – Wednesday 18th January 2023

The UKCLA Annual General Meeting will be held in person at 1.30pm on the 18th of January 2023 […]

UKCLA December 19, 2022 Announcement, UKCLA

Paolo Sandro: Vorrei ma non posso? The Brown Commission’s report and the conundrum of constitutional entrenchment in the UK

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The Brown Commission’s report on the future of the Union has already sparked a lively debate. In a […]

UKCLA December 19, 2022 Brown Commission, Constitutional Law, Constitutional reform, Parliamentary sovereignty, United Kingdom

Christmas Break

The UKCLA blog will close for the Christmas break on Tuesday 20th December 2022 and will re-open for […]

UKCLA December 16, 2022 Announcement, UKCLA

Mike Gordon:  A New Britain, A New Constitution? Labour’s Proposals for Constitutional Entrenchment

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The Labour Party’s Commission on the UK’s Future has published a report making some bold proposals for constitutional […]

UKCLA December 16, 2022 Brown Commission, Constitutional change, Constitutional reform, Parliamentary sovereignty

Adam Tucker: Entrenchment, Parliamentary Sovereignty, and the Limited Radicalism of the Brown Report

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The publication of the Report of the Commission on the UK’s Future is attracting widespread attention.  The centrepiece of its constitutional […]

UKCLA December 15, 2022 Brown Commission, Constitutional change

UKCLA Membership

Dear UKCLA members, Thank you to all members who have renewed their membership for this year. Ahead of […]

UKCLA December 12, 2022 Announcement, UKCLA

Lee Marsons and Sarah Nason: Public Law Current Survey (August – October 2022)

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Editors’ note: The Public Law Current Survey was originally published in Public Law and is reprinted here with the generous […]

UKCLA December 12, 2022 Current Survey

Aileen McHarg: The Future of the Territorial Constitution under Labour? The Report of the Commission on the UK’s Future

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On Monday, the Labour Party published the report of the Commission on the UK’s Future, chaired by Gordon […]

UKCLA December 8, 2022 Brown Commission, Devolution, United Kingdom

Elizabeth A. O’Loughlin, Gabriel Tan and Cassandra Somers-Joce: The Duty of Candour in Judicial Review: The Case of the Lost Policy

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Earlier this year, in a Divisional Court judgment that garnered much attention from public lawyers, the Home Office […]

UKCLA December 7, 2022 Judicial review

Alice Donald: Earning Deference from Strasbourg: Has the UK Got the Message?

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This blog addresses a paradox: why is it that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the […]

UKCLA December 6, 2022 European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998

Call for Papers

SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (SLSA) ANNUAL CONFERENCE Ulster University, Derry-Londonderry, from 4 to 6 April 2023 SECTION: CONSTITUTIONALISM IN […]

UKCLA December 2, 2022 Calls for Papers

Ronan Cormacain: The rise and rise of the super-enabling clause

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It has become increasingly popular to include what I term a ‘super-enabling clause’ in primary legislation. It is […]

UKCLA November 30, 2022 Devolution, UK Parliament

Chris Himsworth: Referendum Bill Consequentials

At paras 56-57 of their judgment, the court in Reference by the Lord Advocate of devolution issues ([2022] UKSC 31) […]

UKCLA November 29, 2022 Devolution, Second Scottish Independence Referendum

Colin Murray: A New Period of “Indirect” Direct Rule – The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Bill

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Only a few short months on from the passing of the Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) […]

UKCLA November 29, 2022 Constitutional Law, Northern Ireland

Saba Shakil: Bridging the gap between remedial reform and judicial practice: A study of challenges to delegated legislation

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The resurrected Bill of Rights Bill (BoRB) shows that the government is continuing to grasp at the wrong […]

UKCLA November 24, 2022 Judicial review, remedies

Roger Masterman: The Convention Rights in the Human Rights Act and under a Bill of Rights: Domestic, European or Both?

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*Editors’ note: This post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]

UKCLA November 23, 2022 Bill of Rights 2022, European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998

Hélène Tyrrell and Conall Mallory: Interpretive Space: The Human Rights Act 1998 v the British Bill of Rights Bill

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*Editors’ note: This post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]

UKCLA November 23, 2022 Bill of Rights 2022, Human Rights Act 1998

Jane Rooney: The Extraterritorial Application of the Human Rights Act: Overseas Military Operations and Beyond

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*Editors’ note: this post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]

UKCLA November 22, 2022 Human Rights Act 1998

Kenneth A. Armstrong: Will the Supreme Court Clear the Way to a Scottish Independence Referendum?

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At the end of June, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set out the Scottish Government’s roadmap for a […]

UKCLA November 21, 2022 Devolution, Scotland, Second Scottish Independence Referendum

Christian Magaard: Reconciling the Proactive Principle of Legality with Parliamentary Sovereignty

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*Editors’ note: This post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]

UKCLA November 17, 2022 Human Rights Act 1998, Parliamentary sovereignty, principle of legality

Shona Wilson Stark: Section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998: Still Standing, or Standing Still?

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*Editors’ note: this post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]

UKCLA November 16, 2022 Human Rights Act 1998

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