Twenty-one eminent constitutional lawyers expressed this view in a letter to the Times (3 4 19): ‘Any attempt […]
Royal Assent
In his insightful post, David Howarth set out a conflict between two visions of democracy: Westminster and Whitehall. […]
The ‘Cooper-Letwin Act’ (European Union Withdrawal (No 5) Act 2019) may yet come to be known as the […]
The issue of whether the Queen can refuse royal assent to legislation, whether advised by her Ministers to […]
Lawyers like to make as much sense as possible of the material in front of them, transforming it, […]
I agree with Mark Elliott in finding my April 1 argument about prorogation and assent astonishing and monstrous, […]
An article in the Sunday Times by Professor Richard Ekins and Sir Stephen Laws QC advised that the […]
I wrote recently on this blog about the issue of Royal Assent. This post concerns the wholly separate […]
Introduction As is well known, the Government’s Withdrawal Agreement was voted down in Parliament last week by 230 […]
There is a very good article in the most recent edition of the Law Quarterly Review. It is […]
