Tag: Public Law
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Daniel Hoadley, Joe Tomlinson, Editha Nemsic and Cassandra Somers-Joce: How public is public law? Approximately 55%
Judicial review judgments possess multi-layered value. For the parties to a case, they are an authoritative record of the outcome of a legal dispute, providing reasons for that outcome. For lawyers and judges, they support the provision of advice about the law and become legal authorities that can be used to argue and resolve future…
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Joe Tomlinson: Government as Skunk Works
The legislative programme of this Government has—unsurprisingly, given its widely stated reformist ambitions—attracted close attention from those interested in constitutional matters. Several bills have been introduced into this Parliament that have (rightly) been the subject of extensive commentary and interest in this respect, including the Judicial Review and Courts Bill, the Dissolution and Calling of…
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Conor Gearty: Reflections on Purpose
Twenty years ago the brilliant political scientist Brendan O’Leary wrote a pugilistic article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, pithily entitled ‘What Should Public Lawyers Do?’: (1992) 12 OJLS 404. O’Leary was thinking about the challenge of inter-disciplinarity and of how much any of us can risk gambolling across fields without making obvious the…