The Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill is designed, in the words of the Prime Minister’s Written Statement, […]
The City Law School Webinar: Post-Brexit UK-EU Parliamentary Cooperation: Whose representation? Thursday 4 March 4.30pm-6pm GMT Organised by the Institute […]
The Secretary of State for Health, Matt Hancock, announced in Parliament on Tuesday 9th February that those returning […]
On its passage through Parliament, the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA) attracted a great deal of […]
The relationship between delegated legislation and the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is seemingly becoming a more contentious […]
Dear UKCLA members, Thank you for your support in 2020. I would like to invite all members to […]
The Court of Appeal has recently affirmed the proposition that a person can be liable under the misuse […]
The Public Law Project will be holding an online conference examining Public Law and Brexit, starting on Monday […]
There have been recent revelations about the use of the Queen’s consent procedure in relation to Government Bills. […]
Following the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January, several Republican lawmakers accused the press and social […]
Viruses can move the world and COVID-19 has unquestionably tested the United Kingdom’s constitutional settlement. This is not […]
Legislation needs to be clear so that citizens can understand it and parliamentarians know what they are voting […]
To anyone who accepts Britain’s parliamentary sovereignty, Brexit should not make sense. How could a nation committed to […]
The announcement of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) on Christmas Eve 2020 may have come as […]
For nearly a hundred and fifty years, parliamentary sovereignty or supremacy (the terms are used interchangeably) has been […]
As some readers may know, I have been involved in various modest ways with responding to the ongoing […]
Not since the Blair era has a government been so committed to a significant programme of constitutional reform […]
The Issue Following the end of the UK’s transition period for withdrawing from the EU, the status of […]
UKCLA Annual General Meeting – 27th January 2021 The UKCLA Annual General Meeting will be held at 4 […]
Brexit and the Regulatory and Supervisory Gaps Brexit is leading to the creation of new regulatory and supervisory […]
The Blog will be taking a break over the Christmas period, returning on Monday 4 January. We would […]
‘The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, […]
The United Kingdom Internal Market Act has become law, receiving Royal Assent shortly before MPs and Lords departed […]
Against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic still raging, the US Supreme Court recently weighed in on the […]
Things were different in 2010. If schools closed and households found themselves stuck indoors, or unable to travel […]
Fresh from inaugurating its Independent Review of Administrative Law, this government is still not finished with the judiciary, […]
Many modern constitutional systems, despite the prevalence of adult suffrage, forbid certain classes of person from participation in […]
We might wonder whether it is worth writing about the rules of ministerial responsibility under the current government […]
Between 7 September and 26 October 2020, the Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL) ran its call for […]
On 22nd October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal (CT) held unconstitutional a statutory legal provision, which had previously […]
Brexit and the UK Judiciary: Boon or Curse? To be held virtually: Friday, 27 November 2020, School of […]
The Cambridge Private Law Centre last week hosted its annual Freshfields lecture. Lord Sumption addressed us on “Government […]
IACL Virtual Global Roundtable: ‘Democracy 2020’ On 18-26 November the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) Global Roundtable […]
Litigation challenging the vires of the Coronavirus Regulations has been rumbling along over recent months. On 6 July […]
As I watched Lord Judge’s eloquent defence of the rule of the law in the House of Lords […]
On 20 October, the UK Administrative Justice Institute (UKAJI) made available on its website its submission to the […]
(The following is an adapted version of part of the response of the Wales Public Law and Human […]
This is Part Two of a post examining the Rule of Law opportunities and risks arising from the […]
The Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL), which is holding a short, seven-week consultation that will close on […]
Professor Albert Venn Dicey—one of the “great cataloguers of the British constitution”—dedicated a full chapter of his seminal […]
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in association with Wolfson College and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford invites you […]
Call for Papers Annual Doctoral Workshop in Constitutional Theory: Domestic, European and International Perspectives Drawing on past successful […]
The United Kingdom Internal Market Bill is something of an imperfect storm, provoking the ire both of the […]
Introduction On 31 July 2020, the Government established an independent panel to take forward its Independent Review of […]
The global outpouring of grief upon the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September showed how complete […]
The UK-EU negotiations on the final shape of the future relationship between them are reaching a crescendo as […]
“Left” in the Hands of the Crown The extent to which an exercise of prerogative power can be […]
In the next few days and weeks, the EU and the UK must decide whether they both really […]
The Speaker speaks On 30 September the Speaker made a formal statement excoriating the Government. He told the […]
Introduction We now have a government under law, except in a limited, specific way. The Advocate General, Lord […]
