The responsibility for holding the government to account for its failings is the core constitutional role of a […]
legitimate expectations
In September 2024, the Business and Trade Secretary (‘the Secretary of State’)suspended licences authorising the export of items […]
Public authorities are imbued with statutory and prerogative powers. And every now and then, they publish a policy […]
In R (Gallaher Group Ltd) v Competition and Markets Authority the Supreme Court ruled that UK domestic law […]
Since the emergence of the modern doctrine of legitimate expectation in English and Welsh administrative law in the […]
A few days after the referendum on EU membership of the European Union, Theresa May stated that she […]
Courts and commentators have sometimes said the administrative law doctrine of legitimate expectations is incoherent. They say that […]
The morally and politically charged area of assisted suicide has many of the hallmarks of an insoluble problem. […]
A recent judgment in an interlocutory hearing in the Federal Court of Australia has raised the fascinating question […]
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