Introductory As the ‘Great Repeal Bill’ of rhetoric becomes the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill of reality, the scale […]
Sewel Convention
Introduction – a perfect storm? As predicted, Brexit is proving to be profoundly destabilising for the peace process […]
A report by the National Assembly for Wales’ Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee published on 24 […]
A good deal of the legal and constitutional interest generated by Brexit has so far, perhaps unsurprisingly, focussed […]
Euroscepticism – usually framed as an argument from national sovereignty – was an important driving force behind Brexit, […]
One interesting finding in Miller is that it appears to recognise the Sewel Convention as a new form […]
Many celebrated Miller’s outcome, imposing a Parliamentary “brake” (however brief) on the triggering of Article 50. But the […]
It is clear that the UKSC’s observations on the meaning and effect of ss. 1 and 2 of […]
The holding of the majority in Miller that section 28(8) of the Scotland Act 1998, which echoes the […]
Constitutional conventions are, the Supreme Court has confirmed, just that: conventions. The courts are “neither the parents nor […]
