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Category Archive: Scotland

Catriona Mullay: A Fresh Start, the Old Tradition: Sovereignty and the Scottish Constitutional Imaginary

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Recently, the Scottish Government published A Fresh Start with Independence, restating the case for autonomy and outlining aspects […]

UKCLA December 11, 2025 Scotland

Stewart Duncan: Reforming Holyrood’s Committees: A Constitutional Perspective

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Committees, scrutiny and the distribution of power at Holyrood From when the Scottish Parliament was first established, much […]

UKCLA November 27, 2025 Devolution, Scotland

Penelope Cassandra Webb: Silences, Spectacle, and the Limitations of Law

The decision of the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers [2025] is one […]

UKCLA June 5, 2025 Civil Liberties, Human rights, Public Litigation, Scotland, United Kingdom

Iain Jamieson: Altering the Effect of Section 28(7) of the Scotland Act 1998

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This article suggests that the Supreme Court’s interpretation of section 28(7) has created such problems in relation to […]

UKCLA November 11, 2024 Devolution, Scotland

Mohamed Moussa: From Texas to Scotland: Secessionism and the Vulnerability of Parliamentary Sovereignty

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Introduction Recently Texas governor Gregg Abbott openly defied the federal government over migration control. Echoing ‘the secessionist rhetoric’ […]

UKCLA May 30, 2024 Scotland

Paolo Sandro: Devolution and the Phantom Menace: An alternative view on the appropriate intensity of judicial scrutiny of the s.35 Scotland Act 1998 order

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Michael Foran has eloquently defended on this blog the decision by Lady Haldane in Re Scottish Minister’s Petition 2023 CSOH 89 which […]

UKCLA December 20, 2023 Devolution, Scotland

Michael Foran: Section 35 and the Separation of Powers: On the Role of Unwritten Constitutional Principles in the Interpretation of the Scotland Act

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This week, the Outer House of the Court of Session delivered judgment in Re Scottish Minister’s Petition 2023 […]

UKCLA December 13, 2023 Devolution, Scotland

Thomas Horsley: Managing the External Effects of Devolved Legislation: Virtual Representation, Self-Rule and the UK’s Territorial Constitution

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The Scottish Government is presently seeking judicial review of the UK Government’s decision to block Royal Assent for […]

UKCLA October 5, 2023 Devolution, Scotland

David Torrance: “Nothing in the Nature of a Second Coronation”

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On 23 April 2023 the Sunday Telegraph carried a striking headline: “Scotland to host its own Coronation for […]

UKCLA May 16, 2023 Monarchy, Scotland, United Kingdom

Chris McCorkindale and Aileen McHarg: Rescuing the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill? The Scottish Government’s Challenge to the Section 35 Order

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Introduction On 17 January, the Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack MP, made an Order under s.35 […]

UKCLA April 25, 2023 Devolution, Judicial review, Scotland

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