A good deal of the legal and constitutional interest generated by Brexit has so far, perhaps unsurprisingly, focussed […]
Sewel Convention
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 […]
R (on the application of Miller and Dos Santos) (Respondents) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European […]
Introduction Regular readers of this blog will need no reminding of how much anticipation has been devoted to […]
The jurisprudential concept of the rule of recognition featured several times during the Miller hearings at the Supreme […]