A great deal of the controversy surrounding the recent case of Axa General Insurance Ltd v Lord Advocate […]
Category Archive: Judiciary
In two recent contributions to this blog, Professors Goldsworthy and Oliver have put forward two quite different bases […]
There are at least three reasons why constitutional lawyers must endeavour to keep abreast of the work of […]
The relationship between the UK and the European Court of Human Rights is once again in the news. […]
If a week’s a long time in politics, then two years is surely a couple of lifetimes? Hidden […]
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 […]
The debate over which institution of government possesses ultimate constitutional authority for determining questions of human rights is […]
Seven years after the judicial appointments process was completely refashioned under the provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act […]
In his recent F.A. Mann lecture Jonathan Sumption Q.C., the newly appointed member of the Supreme Court, took […]
