The morally and politically charged area of assisted suicide has many of the hallmarks of an insoluble problem. […]
Category Archive: Judicial review
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 […]
A recent judgment in an interlocutory hearing in the Federal Court of Australia has raised the fascinating question […]
Until recently, the Ullah principle – that in giving effect to the Convention rights under the HRA the […]
While this was probably not its primary objective at the time, the Daily Telegraph scoop on MPs’ expenses […]
UK Constitutional Law Association 