As is well known, in Hirst v UK (No 2) the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human […]
Category Archive: Judicial review
To observe that substantive judicial review—and the notions of proportionality and deference in particular—constitute well-trodden ground would be […]
There is much current debate over judicial review, prompted in large part by successive government consultation papers. This […]
The morally and politically charged area of assisted suicide has many of the hallmarks of an insoluble problem. […]
Readers of this blog will be familiar with the controversial reforms to the judicial review procedure in England […]
Marbury v Madison is the most famous judicial decision in US history, written by the most important judge in US […]
In Australia as in England, courts began “reading down” legislative grants of broad and seemingly unfettered discretionary power […]
The basic structure doctrine, as first expounded by the Indian Supreme Court in the early 1970s in Kesavanand […]
If prizes were awarded to ‘Distinctions in English law’, then a good contender for the ‘lifetime achievement’ award […]
In his 2004 book “Don’t think of an elephant” cognitive linguist George Lakoff offered his view on the […]
UK Constitutional Law Association 