A few weeks ago, two judges of the Australian High Court (French CJ and Bell J) heard an […]
Author: Constitutional Law Group
A number of events have been held recently in Canada to mark the 30th anniversary of the ‘patriation’ […]
If a week’s a long time in politics, then two years is surely a couple of lifetimes? Hidden […]
In conducting constitutional review with a proportionality test, much depends on the how the purpose of the challenged […]
Should judges update the meaning of statutes? Consider Yemshaw v London Borough of Hounslow [2011] UKSC 3, in […]
Imagine that Parliament has recently passed a provision authorising the indefinite detention without trial of suspected terrorists. The […]
One may question whether “the practice of sport is a human right”, as stated in the Olympic Charter. […]
For a society as devoted to secrets and privacy as the British are traditionally supposed to be, however, […]
The debate over which institution of government possesses ultimate constitutional authority for determining questions of human rights is […]
Hayley J. Hooper: ‘A Case without Precedent’: City of London v Samede and Others [2012] EWHC 34 (QB)
THE OCCUPY WALL STREET protest movement began on September 17, 2011 in the New York Financial District. Around […]
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