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Marianne Holbrook: Should Decisions of the Attorney General be Judicially Reviewable?

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In July 2025, the Divisional Court in R (Campbell) v Attorney General [2025] EWHC 1653 (Admin), held that […]

UKCLA December 10, 2025 Administrative law, Judicial review

Conor Casey: The Attorney’s Bridle: The Constitutional Convention Disciplining the Attorney General’s Discretionary Powers

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The Attorney General is one of the most powerful and influential officers in the British Constitution. They are the chief adviser […]

UKCLA October 20, 2025 Constitutional Accountability

Dane Luo: The Anomalous Islands of Public Interest Functions Immune from Judicial Review

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The Attorney-General is an ancient office that is endowed with a very wide range of discretionary powers and […]

UKCLA October 14, 2025 Administrative law, Judicial review

Antonia Layard: Darwall and the Public Life of Private Property

When wealthy landowners, Alexander and Diana Darwall, sued a national park authority to stop people pitching their tents […]

UKCLA June 4, 2025 Common law, England, Judicial review, Land Law, Legislation, principle of legality

Conor Casey: Is the Law Officers’ Legal Advice Binding on the Government?

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There are two distinct senses in which one can ask whether the Law Officers’ legal advice is “binding” […]

UKCLA May 19, 2025 Uncategorized

Terence Daintith: Attacking the Attorney General: Some constitutional and administrative context

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Identifying the rules and practices that should properly be regarded as part of our flexible and uncodified constitution […]

UKCLA March 6, 2025 Constitutional Accountability

George Peretz:  The Policy Exchange Paper on the Attorney General’s New Legal Risk Guidelines: Excited Adjectives, Unpersuasive Analysis

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One of the best lessons I was given by my pupil supervisors in drafting written submissions was to […]

UKCLA December 4, 2024 Policy Making

Conor Casey: House of Lords Constitution Committee Rejects Significant Reform to UK Law Officers

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Background to Inquiry on Role of Law Officers The Attorney General and Solicitor General are the UK government’s […]

UKCLA January 31, 2023 Constitutional reform

Conor McCormick: A law officer log: Recent developments concerning the office of Attorney General and its equivalents

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Today marks the publication of my book on The Constitutional Legitimacy of Law Officers in the United Kingdom, which […]

UKCLA July 14, 2022 Constitutional Accountability

Sir Jonathan Jones QC (Hon): The Northern Ireland Protocol, International Law and the Attorney General

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The Times recently (11 May 2022) reported that the Attorney General, Suella Braverman, had received, and given, legal […]

UKCLA May 30, 2022 International law, Northern Ireland, UK government

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