Tag: UK Constitutional Court
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Mike Gordon: The UK’s Sovereignty Uncertainty
The sovereignty strand of the renegotiation of the UK’s position in the EU was always likely to raise challenges. This is, in part, because ‘sovereignty’ itself is a contested idea: it can mean different things to different people in different contexts, and may raise different considerations depending on the perspective from which it is confronted.…
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Jeff King: On the Proposal for a UK Constitutional Court
Of all the rushed ideas for major constitutional reform that could be adopted by the current Government, the one for a UK Constitutional Court (UKCC) as a solution to the perceived EU problem is by far the worst. The President of the Supreme Court Lord Neuberger told The Times last week that the idea is…