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Taking the constitution seriously: A response to Lord Sales
The incoming Deputy President of the Supreme Court devoted a recent lecture to a critique of my commentary on his judgment in the Spitalfields case, highlighting differences between us concerning… Read more
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The ‘othering’ of human rights and the agenda underlying calls for ECHR withdrawal
A recent conference marking the 75th anniversary anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights provided a sobering opportunity for reflection on possible trajectories of human rights protection in the… Read more
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Does the UK have a constitution?
At the 2021 Cambridge Law Conference for prospective Law students, I gave a talk that explored the question: ‘Does the UK have a constitution?’ The question is worth asking —… Read more
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The Miller II Case in Legal and Political Context
I recently completed a paper examining the UK Supreme Court’s judgment in the Miller II case, in which it was held that an attempt to prorogue the UK Parliament for… Read more
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The UK-EU Brexit Agreements and ‘sovereignty’: Having one’s cake and eating it?
When he was Theresa May’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson famously said, apropos of Brexit, that his ‘policy on cake’ was ‘pro having it and pro eating it’ — in other… Read more
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Repealing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act
The days of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 — adopted almost a decade ago as part of the Coalition Agreement between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Parties — appear to… Read more
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The UK constitution under pressure: A lost age of civility?
Recently, I have been reflecting on the question: ‘Does the UK constitution still work?’ Of course, the question is value-laden. For one thing, it implicitly assumes that, whether or not… Read more
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Legal kryptonite? Parliamentary sovereignty, international law and the Internal Market Bill
The following is a lightly edited version of a piece that was first published in the autumn/winter 2020 edition of Lauterpacht Centre News, the newsletter of the University of Cambridge’s… Read more
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One step forward, two steps back? Judicial review and the Government’s amendments to the Internal Market Bill
In an earlier post and in evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee I have already drawn attention to concerns about the attempt in the United Kingdom Internal Market… Read more
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The Internal Market Bill: My evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee
I was pleased to be invited to give evidence earlier this week to the House of Lords Constitution Committee on the constitutional issues arising from the United Kingdom Internal Market… Read more
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The (constitutional) state we’re in: A week in British politics
If proof were needed that a week can be a long time in politics, one would need to look no further than the events of the last seven days in… Read more
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The Internal Market Bill – A Perfect Constitutional Storm
The willingness of the UK’s Brexiteer-led Government to pick fights with the European Union is a given. So too, now, is its appetite for a show-down with the courts, as… Read more
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