The resurrected Bill of Rights Bill (BoRB) shows that the government is continuing to grasp at the wrong […]
*Editors’ note: This post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]
*Editors’ note: This post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]
*Editors’ note: this post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]
At the end of June, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set out the Scottish Government’s roadmap for a […]
*Editors’ note: This post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]
*Editors’ note: this post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]
*Editors’ note: this post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]
*Editors’ note: This post is part of a series on ‘The Human Rights Act After 22 Years’, following […]
Judgment was given in the famous Wednesbury case 75 years ago today, on 10th November 1947. Readers of this blog know […]
CAJI Event: Prof Rosalind Dixon ‘Responsive Judicial Review’ 11:00 – 13:00 10 November 2022 The Constitutional and Administrative […]
Recently I have had the great pleasure of convening the SLS Annual Seminar – The Human Rights Act […]
Introduction The use of crowdfunding to access public law litigation is a matter which attracts much online commentary […]
The General Editors and Editorial Committee of Public Law are seeking to appoint a new member of the […]
Writing about the “work” of the Queen in 1958, the journalist and Herald Dermot Morrah claimed there had been “scarcely […]
The office of Prime Minister is a creature entirely of constitutional convention. While legislation references the office itself, […]
As I sit and watch the turmoil at Westminster on the morning (afternoon in London) that Liz Truss […]
Many of those who have engaged with constitutional ramifications of Brexit have warned that protection of human rights […]
Nine Dots Prize: Why has the rule of law become so fragile? The Nine Dots Prize is an […]
What is the purpose of the referendum proposed in the Scottish Independence Referendum Bill? Is it, as s 1 […]
There are many points of note for those interested in Constitutional law in the recently published Retained EU […]
The Lord Advocate’s Reference to the Supreme Court asks if the proposed Scottish Independence Referendum Bill relates to reserved matters under the […]
On 11-12 October the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a reference brought by the Lord Advocate under […]
On 28 June 2022, the Lord Advocate referred to the UK Supreme Court (“UKSC”) the question of whether […]
No two Accessions are the same. That of King Edward VII in 1901 was characterised by widespread confusion […]
Editors’ note: The Public Law Current Survey was originally published in Public Law and is reprinted here with the generous […]
SLS Annual Seminar – The Human Rights Act After 22 Years: Evolution, Impact, Future Directions Convener: Professor Merris […]
It may reasonably be argued that the Johnson Government launched a determined assault upon the UK constitutional settlement. […]
Last week Liz Truss’s cabinet decided to shelve the proposed British Bill of Rights. Quite a lot has […]
And so the United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister, replacing one who, having besmirched the office, had […]
Followers of online commentator David Allen Green will be familiar with his (increasingly exasperated) observation that constitutional law […]
Clause 14 of the Bill of Rights Bill, currently progressing through the UK parliament, introduces a total ban […]
International Virtual Conference: Judicial Independence in Developing Democracies School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University 22 August 2022 […]
It is not surprising or new that the executive plays institutional chess with the courts. Judicial review, though […]
The ‘Bill of Rights Bill’, repealing and replacing the Human Rights Act, has already attracted significant criticism. This […]
On 16 July 2022, the House of Lords Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee (CFSC) issued its Second Report on […]
A Scottish Minister, when introducing a Bill into the Scottish Parliament, is required by section 31(1) of the […]
Annual Holiday The UKCLA blog will take its annual holiday over August, from Monday 1 August, returning on […]
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization should have given pause to supporters of vague […]
On 28 June 2022 the First Minister provided an update to the Scottish Parliament on the Scottish Government’s route […]
Today marks the publication of my book on The Constitutional Legitimacy of Law Officers in the United Kingdom, which […]
Empirical research into judicial review has recently started to draw attention, as Brian Christopher Jones points out in his […]
Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (“HRA”) is one of the central features of our current human […]
In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization attention has turned to whether […]
The dominant narrative in the discussion over judicial review—and especially in relation to judicial overreach—focuses on major cases, […]
Constitutional bombshells do not come along very often, most change is incremental and piecemeal – or at least […]
The relationship between the Scotland Act 1998 (“the SA”), Convention rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 (“the […]
On 28 June 2022, the Scottish First Minister announced that the Lord Advocate had made a reference to the UK […]
The UK’s territorial constitution is, at present, under a great deal of pressure. Those familiar with one force […]
Introduction On Friday 24th June 2022, in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) overruled the right to […]
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