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Public Law for Everyone. Category: 1,000 words. May 16, 2016. May 24, 2016. If EU law is supreme, can Parliament be sovereign? If EU law is supreme, can Parliament be sovereign? February 21, 2016. June 6, 2016. The Rule of Law. The Rule of Law. October 16, 2015. May 23, 2016. The Sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament. The Sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament. October 15, 2014. May 23, 2016. Devolution in the United Kingdom. Devolution in the United Kingdom. September 11, 2014. May 22, 2016.
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Bourgass in the Supreme Court: Solitary Confinement, the Carltona Doctrine and Procedural Fairness – Public Law for Everyone
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Public Law for Everyone. Bourgass in the Supreme Court: Solitary Confinement, the Carltona Doctrine and Procedural Fairness. A post to draw attention to an interesting administrative-law case decided by the Supreme Court today. The central question in. R (Bourgass) v Secretary of State for Justice. Was straightforward: Had the prison authorities acted lawfully by subjecting the claimant prisoners to solitary confinement for unbroken periods of several months? 1) Where it appears desirable, for the mainte...
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The UK Supreme Court and the British Constitution – Public Law for Everyone
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Public Law for Everyone. The UK Supreme Court and the British Constitution. I recently contributed the foreword to this year’s volume of the. United Kingdom Supreme Court Annual Review. In my foreword, I address what I consider to be a significant new wave of constitutional jurisprudence emerging from the Supreme Court, including such judgments as. R (HS2 Action Alliance) v Secretary of State for Transport. 2014] UKSC 3, [2014] 1 WLR 324,. Osborn v Parole Board. 2013] UKSC 61, [2014] AC 1115,. Features a...
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1,000 words – Public Law for Everyone
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Public Law for Everyone. Series of occasional posts on key issues . Each post addresses in roughly a thousand words a fundamental concept, principle, doctrine, institution or debate relevant to Public Law. The intention is that over time: posts will roll out slowly. Will evolve into a resource that will address a broad range of key issues in Public Law, and that it will help students better to engage with crucial aspects of the subject. Politics and Public Policy. 1,000 words posts. The rule of law.
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Now published: Wilberg and Elliott (eds), The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review: Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow – Public Law for Everyone
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Public Law for Everyone. Now published: Wilberg and Elliott (eds), The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review: Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow. I am pleased to announce the publication of. The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review: Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow. Which I co-edited with Hanna Wilberg. Taggart’s work is notable for treating these various aspects of substantive review as parts of a broader whole, and for his search for an appropriate balance between judicial scrutiny and administrative au...
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Amending the Hunting Act: Would English votes for English laws make a difference? – Public Law for Everyone
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Public Law for Everyone. Amending the Hunting Act: Would English votes for English laws make a difference? It is reported today. That the Scottish National Party plans to vote against proposals to amend the Hunting Act 2004. So as to relax (but not remove) the prohibition on hunting wild animals with dogs. The Government’s proposal is that the Act should be amended through the enactment of secondary legislation. A report on the BBC News website. Are implemented. The BBC’s Assistant Political Editor, ...
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1,000 words | The Sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament – Public Law for Everyone
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Public Law for Everyone. The Sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament. Authority on the legislature; and the constitution restricts. In the UK, however, in the absence of a written constitution, there is nothing to tell us what powers Parliament has. And there is equally nothing to tell us what powers (if any) Parliament lacks. It appears, therefore, that the constitution fails to perform the twin functions of allocating and limiting authority that usually result in something other than legislative s...
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My analysis of the Conservative Party’s proposals for a British Bill of Rights – Public Law for Everyone
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Public Law for Everyone. My analysis of the Conservative Party’s proposals for a British Bill of Rights. I wrote earlier this week. About David Cameron’s announcement at the Conservative Party conference that a future Tory government would repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. Cameron gave very little away in his speech, but more detailed proposals although not yet a draft Bill have now been published. Protecting Human Rights in the UK. To say that the Convention ...
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RightsInfo: 50 human-rights cases that transformed Britain – Public Law for Everyone
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Public Law for Everyone. RightsInfo: 50 human-rights cases that transformed Britain. I wrote in April. About the launch of RightsInfo. A new initiative from Adam Wagner, the founding editor of the UK Human Rights Blog. Following a crowdsourcing project (to which I contributed. RightsInfo has now published its full set of “50 human-rights cases that transformed Britain”. Accompanied by a fantastic infographic. That enables readers to dip into and find out more about those cases. The place of judges. New p...
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