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Michael Foran: Interpretation after the Human Rights Act? The Principle of Legality and the Rule of Law

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Last week Liz Truss’s cabinet decided to shelve the proposed British Bill of Rights. Quite a lot has […]

UKCLA September 12, 2022 Constitutional Law, Human Rights Act 1998, Judiciary, United Kingdom

Donnchadh Greene and Gabriel Tan: Statutory Interpretation and Citizenship: D4 v SSHD and PRCBC v SSHD

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This piece considers two recent decisions – one by the Court of Appeal (“CA”): D4 v Secretary of […]

UKCLA February 9, 2022 Administrative law, principle of legality

Michael Foran: Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Politics of Law-making

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Parliamentary sovereignty has traditionally been understood to mean that Parliament is free to enact legislation on any area […]

UKCLA October 18, 2021 Devolution, Human Rights Act 1998, Parliamentary sovereignty, Scotland, UK Parliament, United Kingdom

Mark Elliott and Nicholas Kilford: Devolution in the Supreme Court: Legislative Supremacy, Parliament’s ‘Unqualified’ Power, and ‘Modifying’ the Scotland Act

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In the Continuity Bill Reference, the Supreme Court advanced a striking analysis of the implications for devolution of […]

UKCLA October 15, 2021 Devolution, Judicial review, Parliamentary sovereignty, Scotland, UK Parliament, United Kingdom

Krishan Nadesan: Asking the Impossible: Benn, Kinnock and Extending Article 50

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Boris Johnson seems caught in an impossible bind. The European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act – the Benn […]

Constitutional Law Group October 1, 2019 UK government, UK Parliament

Alison Young: Prorogation, Politics and the Principle of Legality

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Constitutional lawyers often point to key cases as milestones in public law. Recently, the Supreme Court decision in […]

Constitutional Law Group September 13, 2019 Judicial review, Scotland, UK government, UK Parliament

Mike Gordon: Privacy International, Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Synthetic Constitution

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The case of R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal  is the latest in a series of high […]

Constitutional Law Group June 26, 2019 Judicial review

Thomas Fairclough: What’s New About the Rule of Law? A Reply to Michal Hain

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This blog recently published a detailed piece by Michal Hain. He made some very interesting claims that this […]

Constitutional Law Group September 18, 2017 Judicial review

Michal Hain: Guardians of the Constitution – the Constitutional Implications of a Substantive Rule of Law

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A constitutional storm is brewing. Whilst it is too early to perform the burial rites for parliamentary sovereignty, […]

Constitutional Law Group September 12, 2017 Judicial review

Natasha Simonsen:Government cannot use a ‘statutory back door’ to implement major changes to legal aid services, Divisional Court says

In a judgment released yesterday a Divisional Court unanimously struck down the government’s attempt to introduce a residence […]

Constitutional Law Group July 17, 2014 Judicial review

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