Tag: constitutional norms
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Leonid Sirota: Tortoise Media: Another Step towards the Political Constitution’s Demise?
At the outset of their judgment for the Supreme Court in R (Miller) v Prime Minister [2019] UKSC 41, [2020] AC 373 (a.k.a. Miller No. 2), Lady Hale and Lord Reed sought to reassure those who might be nervous about its implications: the case, they said, ‘arises in circumstances which have never arisen before and are unlikely ever to…
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Jason Varuhas: Remedies Reform Part 2: Discretionary Factors
This is the second in a series of two posts on the remedial reforms proposed in the Judicial Review and Courts Bill (2021), which provide for courts in judicial review proceedings to grant suspended and prospective-only quashing orders. The first post considered the general case for reform, arguing reform is justified so as to reassert…