Robert Craig: Judicial Review of Advice to Prorogue Parliament
In a recent Times article, Lord Pannick QC – leading Counsel in the Miller litigation – argues that if a Prime Minister were to advise HMQ to prorogue parliament to … Continue reading
Tanzil Chowdhury: Statutorising UK Military Deployments and Assessing Anxieties of Their Justiciability
The paramount anxieties that emerge from attempts to statutorising Parliament’s role in making decisions on whether to commit military action abroad has not just been to do with deferring power … Continue reading
Anurag Deb: Buick: Two Courts, Two Approaches and No Government
On 6 July 2018, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal handed down its ruling in Buick’s application for judicial review [2018] NICA 26. A keenly awaited ruling for its constitutional … Continue reading
Angela Patrick: Blushes and Torture: Act of State Doctrine and Justiciability
In a week when Supreme Court watchers expected to dissect the Brexit judgment, the Justices instead handed down their long awaited decision in the joined cases of Belhaj & Ors … Continue reading
Thomas Fairclough: Judicial Review and Article 50: Some Preliminary Issues
Introduction There has been much debate on Article 50 TEU. More specifically, there have been thoughtful arguments about who or what has legal authority to trigger Article 50 and begin … Continue reading
Angela Patrick: Suing the state: judicial competence, restraint and redress in Belhadj
The coverage of last week’s Court of Appeal’s decision in Belhadj & Or. v Straw & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 1394 has thus far generated more political heat than legal … Continue reading
