Category: Uncategorized
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Events: Guest Lecture
LIMITED PRECEDENT SYSTEM AND THE IMPACT OF COMMON LAW ON ADJUDICATION: EVIDENCE FROM CURIA OF HUNGARY The Global South Network (GSN) invites you to the online guest lecture titled “Limited Precedent System and the Impact of Common Law on Adjudication: Evidence from the Curia of Hungary” to be delivered by the Chief Justice/President of Curia (Supreme…
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Events: Global South Network Lecture/ Call for Abstracts
SEA, SURF, SAND: THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE’S DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACHES TO CARIBBEAN CONSTITUTIONALISM DURING THE GLOBAL SOUTH NETWORK (GSN) JUDGES GUEST LECTURE SERIES The Global South Network (GSN) invites you to the online guest lecture titled “Sea, Surf, Sand: The Caribbean Court of Justice’s Developmental Approaches to Caribbean Constitutionalism” by the Honourable Justice Peter A…
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Events: Global South Network Guest Lecture/Public Law Call for Editors/Centre for Constitutions in Context Inaugural Lecture/ Book Launch
THE GLOBAL SOUTH NETWORK (GSN) NORTH-SOUTH JUDICIAL DIALOGUE II (ONLINE) THE HELLENIC COUNCIL OF STATE (THE SUPREME ADMINISTRATIVE COURT OF GREECE) AND ITS POSITION IN THE EUROPEAN LEGAL ORDER DURING THE GLOBAL SOUTH NETWORK (GSN) JUDGES GUEST LECTURE SERIES The Global South Network (GSN) invites you to its second North-South Judicial Dialogue. Honourable Justice Michail Pikramenos,…
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Anurag Deb and Nicholas Kilford: Conditioning the UK Parliament’s power to legislate for a devolved part of the UK: Part I – The Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
Introduction The Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (‘CCA’) is, from a constitutional perspective, a fairly unassuming, if far-reaching, exercise of devolved legislative power. It is an example of a devolved part of the UK seizing the opportunity the devolution framework provides to ‘design policies and take public spending decisions that more closely align with…
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Thomas Horsley: Reforming the UK Internal Market: The UK Government’s Response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020
On 15th July 2025, the UK Government (UKG) published its response to its review and public consultation on Parts 1 and 2 of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA). The Response confirms the UKG’s commitment to (re)position the Common Frameworks (sector-specific intergovernmental agreements coordinating policy in devolved areas previously governed by EU law)…
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Announcement: UKCLA Blog Summer Break
The UKCLA blog will shortly take its annual summer break, running from Monday 28 July to Monday 1 September. Thank you to all of our authors and readers in the first part of 2025 – we hope you have a great summer, and we look forward to reopening for submissions in September. Se-shauna Wheatle, Paul…
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Dane Luo: There is ‘Advice’ and then there is ‘advice’: The Constitutional Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister
On 23 May 2025, the Court of Appeal held that the Conservative Party was not exercising a ‘public function’ for the purposes of s 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 when it elected Liz Truss as party leader, who would go on to be appointed as the Prime Minister: R (Tortoise Media Ltd) v…
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Event: A Parliamentarian’s Guide to the Unwritten Constitution
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Robert Mullins: For Women Scotland: Fastening the “Biological” Straitjacket
In her excellent and informed critique of the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (“FWS”), Crash Wigley notes that in its judgment the Court neglects to address several important issues, including the human rights consequences of the “biological sex” interpretation favoured by the Court. My own discussion…
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Conor Casey: Is the Law Officers’ Legal Advice Binding on the Government?
There are two distinct senses in which one can ask whether the Law Officers’ legal advice is “binding” on the government. The first is whether the legal advice of the Law Officers can be set aside in favour of a legal opinion offered by another lawyer, or whether their view of the law must take…