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Elena De Nictolis and Thomas Poole: Fiscal Capacity without Fiscal Autonomy: Regional and Local Fiscal Devolution in the Autumn Budget
Introduction The Burnham government’s ambitious plans to reform local devolution took their first concrete step with the Budget of 28 October. The full plan for devolution will follow in the Rewiring the State Delivery Plan, due before the end of the year. But the Budget already brought significant news on the fiscal powers of English…
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Bernard Keenan and Ewan Smith: Proscription, Proportion, and Palestine Action – Part 1
Introduction The Supreme Court will hear the Home Secretary’s appeal in R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Department on 4 and 5 November 2026. The case concerns the Home Secretary’s June 2025 decision to proscribe Palestine Action under s.3 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (TA). Hundreds of prosecutions are currently pending in…
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Announcement: International Conference, 11–13 November 2026: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Fürstenbergstr. 19, Freiburg, Germany (hybrid): Host: The Max Planck Center for Democracy, Security and Human Rights
While the proportionality principle has long stood as a hallmark of German legal scholarship and is a widely adopted framework for adjudicating conflicts between individual rights and collective interests, its first sub-test, legitimacy review (i.e., the requirement that state action pursue a legitimate aim), remains strikingly underdeveloped in both doctrine and theory. Courts and scholars…
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Announcement: Lecture by Lord Justice Singh
The Faculty of Advocates’ Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee is delighted to be hosting an upcoming lecture by Lord Justice Singh, a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The lecture will take place on Thursday 19 November 2026 at 5.30pm in Laigh Hall, Parliament House. In this special lecture –…
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Announcement: Public Law Current Survey Co-Editor
The General Editors and Editorial Committee of Public Law are seeking to appoint a Co-Editor of the journal’s “current survey” section (to work alongside Dr Sarah Nason (Bangor University)) and invite expressions of interest from those who may be interested in helping to support the production of Public Law. Public Law publishes four issues per…
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Announcement: Postdoctoral positions in the Department of Public Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
The Department of Public Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher) is seeking to recruit several Postdocs (f/m/div) incl. possibility to earn post-doctoral lecturing qualification (habilitation) at the earliest possible starting date. For further information, please see here:…
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David Erdos: Vince v Associated Newspapers: Have UK Data Protection’s Journalism Provisions Come of Age?
In Vince v Associated Newspapers [2026] EWCA Civ 899, the Court of Appeal held that an unfair processing compensation claim under data protection law provided redress against the seriously misleading publication of a juxtaposed headline and captioned photographs, even though this claim had not been raised in initial proceedings and redress was ruled out in…
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Thomas Horsley: Legislative Design in the Shadow of the UK Internal Market Act: The Food Price Cap (Scotland) Bill
The Scottish Government’s proposals to introduce statutory price caps on essential food items provide a new test of the practical effects of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA) on devolved policymaking. This post examines its initial approach to navigating the UKIMA, outlined in a public consultation published on 1 September 2026. The Scottish…
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Announcement: UKCLA Blog Editorial Team
Professor Se-shauna Wheatle is stepping down as one of the editors of the UK Constitutional Law Association Blog. We would like to thank Se-shauna, on behalf of the wider public law community, for all her work over the last few years. Her place on the editorial team will be taken by Dr Ben Yong of Durham University.…
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Dane Luo: The Protection of “Purported Determinations” in the New Generation of Ouster Clauses
Recently enacted clauses expressly include define a “determination” to include a “purported determination” or state that a court may not question a “determination or purported determination”. It is obvious what is happening. This drafting technique is a direct response to judicial decisions such as the landmark cases in Anisminic and Privacy International. In this post,…