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 […]
Judicial Review Trends and Forecasts 202012 – 16 October There’s just over two weeks to go until Judicial […]
If these European monarchs have no real power, what is the modern monarchy for? Part 1 of […]
Introduction This month sees the publication of our book The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy: European Monarchies […]
The European Communities Act 1972 caused an important and beneficial transformation to the British constitutional settlement. It made […]
Last year, the Government committed itself to establishing a Commission on the Constitution, Democracy and Rights, which would […]
Huge controversy has already been generated over provisions in the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill granting Ministers the […]
The Overseas Operation (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill was introduced in the House of Commons in March 2020 […]
During a pandemic, it seems like a good idea for politicians to ‘follow the science.’ But what does […]
Brexit déjà vu On 14 September 2020, the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill (‘UKIMB’ or ‘the Bill’) passed […]
Speaking in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister described the controversial provisions of the UK Internal Market […]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau opined in Émile that “[t]he universal spirit of the Laws of all countries is always to […]
Amidst increasing concern about the UK Government’s intentions in respect of implementation of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement and […]
Administrative discretion has long troubled administrative and public lawyers. While some protest that its presence leads to arbitrariness […]
Note from the editors: We have been asked to circulate the Call for Evidence for the Independent Review […]
On 21 July 2020, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee published its long delayed report on ‘the Russian threat […]
The curious case of the expanding Government Before they entered government, both Dominic Cummings and Dominic Raab called […]
Democracy and Human rights During a National Crisis or State of Emergency Keele Law Review The Keele Law […]
The Chinese Government has recently enacted a piece of National Security Law (‘the Law’) on Hong Kong, establishing […]
Readers of this blog will be aware of the dispute between the Scottish and UK Governments over who […]
Gareth Evans: Debating Welsh Independence: The Political and Constitutional Pathways to a Referendum
On 15 July 2020, on the final day of sitting before summer recess, the Senedd considered a series […]
On 18 March 2020, the UK Government cancelled GCSE and A level exams for students in England. The […]
The Ministry of Justice issued a consultation paper on Retained EU Case Law on 2 July 2020, seeking […]
Thank you to everyone who has sent in posts during the 2019-2020 academic year. It’s certainly been busy! […]
Part One of this post presented the background to the ‘Third Direction’ case, which concerns a recently disclosed […]
In responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world have imposed unprecedented “lockdowns”. They decided, on the […]
At the heart of the Supreme Court judgment in Serafin v Malkiewicz was the question of whether the […]
The local lockdown in Leicester was announced on the 29th June and began on the 30th, despite the […]
A century ago, Dicey distinguished between laws and conventions of the constitution on the basis that the latter […]
Ordinary legislation is different in its content and method of enactment from emergency legislation. But the risk is […]
The ‘Third Direction case’, soon to be brought before the Court of Appeal, concerns the lawfulness of a […]
By any measure the breadth and depth of substantive judicial review of administrative action have increased remarkably in […]
This post seeks to explain and clarify the status of ‘consistent/equal treatment’ in UK judicial review. The status […]
If Boris Johnson is to be believed – and obviously he wouldn’t lie about anything – Covid-19 nearly […]
According to the government quarantine policy, that came into force on 8 June, nearly all international arrivals at […]
In March 2020, the government introduced a set of restrictions to ‘lockdown’ the UK in response to the […]
This blog analyses the legality of the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020, which came into […]
Two excellent databases enable us to track the effect of Covid-19 on political protests and demonstrations. Both the […]
