Background to Inquiry on Role of Law Officers The Attorney General and Solicitor General are the UK government’s […]
Call for Papers from PGR Students On 23 May 2023, the Centre for Employability, Professional Legal Education and Research at […]
The Brown Commission has recommended replacing the House of Lords with an elected Assembly of the Nations and Regions of […]
One of the key recommendations of the Brown Commission is to replace the House of Lords with an […]
Dear UKCLA members, Thank you for your support in 2022. I would like to invite all members to […]
Call for Abstracts Law and legal scholarship have a problem digesting the sheer volume of decisions reached every […]
Professor Alison Young is stepping down as one of the editors of the UKCLA blog as of January […]
Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law Event – ‘The Form of Legislation and the Rule of Law’ […]
Governance reform in small jurisdictions: challenges and opportunities January 17th 2023, 1-4pm (lunch served from 12pm) Centre for […]
This is a reminder that the UKCLA Annual General Meeting will be held in person at 1.30pm on […]
Yesterday, the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill was heard at Stage 3. If it receives royal assent, it […]
Introduction: The Supreme Court’s Textual Fidelity The UK Supreme Court (UKSC) recently issued its unanimous judgment which found the draft Scottish […]
The UKCLA Annual General Meeting will be held in person at 1.30pm on the 18th of January 2023 […]
The Brown Commission’s report on the future of the Union has already sparked a lively debate. In a […]
The UKCLA blog will close for the Christmas break on Tuesday 20th December 2022 and will re-open for […]
The Labour Party’s Commission on the UK’s Future has published a report making some bold proposals for constitutional […]
Adam Tucker: Entrenchment, Parliamentary Sovereignty, and the Limited Radicalism of the Brown Report
The publication of the Report of the Commission on the UK’s Future is attracting widespread attention. The centrepiece of its constitutional […]
Dear UKCLA members, Thank you to all members who have renewed their membership for this year. Ahead of […]
Editors’ note: The Public Law Current Survey was originally published in Public Law and is reprinted here with the generous […]
On Monday, the Labour Party published the report of the Commission on the UK’s Future, chaired by Gordon […]
Earlier this year, in a Divisional Court judgment that garnered much attention from public lawyers, the Home Office […]
This blog addresses a paradox: why is it that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the […]
SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (SLSA) ANNUAL CONFERENCE Ulster University, Derry-Londonderry, from 4 to 6 April 2023 SECTION: CONSTITUTIONALISM IN […]
It has become increasingly popular to include what I term a ‘super-enabling clause’ in primary legislation. It is […]
At paras 56-57 of their judgment, the court in Reference by the Lord Advocate of devolution issues ([2022] UKSC 31) […]
Only a few short months on from the passing of the Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) […]
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 […]
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