UK Constitutional Law Association

Tag: Crown Dependencies

  • Andrew Le Sueur: Human Rights Litigation in Jersey: A Constitutional Turn?

    Andrew Le Sueur: Human Rights Litigation in Jersey: A Constitutional Turn?

    Following pressure from the in-coming Blair government, in the late 1990s the three Crown Dependencies enacted legislation modelled closely on the UK Human Rights Act 1998 – in Jersey, the Human Rights (Jersey) Law 2000. The States Assembly passed the 2000 Law with little controversy, 49 States members voting pour and only one contre. It…

  • Peter Edge: The Lisvane Report on the Functioning of the Manx Tynwald

    The Isle of Man is an almost entirely self-governing Crown Dependency whose principal constitutional institution is the Tynwald. Tracing its origins to the Norse Kingdom of the Isles, Tynwald primarily as a legislature, but from the 19th century developed an increasing role in the executive. As the British Government relinquished responsibility for increasing areas of…