In an essay published in Elliott, Varuhas and Wilson Stark (eds), The Unity of Public Law? Doctrinal, Theoretical […]
R (Evans) v Attorney General [2015]
While the prorogation of Parliament has generated political controversy, constitutional lawyers are asking whether the government acted legally […]
In Part 1, I cast Anisminic as an example of a common law doctrine of interpretation which can […]
Introduction Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard argument in R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal. This […]
This post is in two parts. The first post (available here) addressed the detail of McCombe LJ’s judgment […]
Two recent Court of Appeal decisions raise some interesting constitutional questions about the status of Tribunals in the […]
I have previously written on this blog and elsewhere about statutory interpretation and the rule of law. In […]
This blog recently published a detailed piece by Michal Hain. He made some very interesting claims that this […]
A constitutional storm is brewing. Whilst it is too early to perform the burial rites for parliamentary sovereignty, […]
The UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) came fully into force on the 1 January 2005. There […]
