Tag: William Wade

  • 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…