Tag: sovereignty of Parliament
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Thomas Adams: Wade’s Factortame
William Wade’s analysis of the second Factortame case ((1996) 112 Law Quarterly Review 568) is well known, and justly so. The facts, too, require little in the way of rehearsal. Briefly, and simplifying somewhat: the House of Lords, as it was then known, decided in 1990 to ‘disapply’ a 1988 statute of the UK Parliament…
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Mark Elliott: Reflections on the HS2 case: a hierarchy of domestic constitutional norms and the qualified primacy of EU law
Earlier this week, the UK Supreme Court gave judgment in R (HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport [2014] UKSC 3. A good overview of the issues at stake in the case can be found in the Court’s press summary, as well as in a post by David Hart on the UK…