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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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The Judicial Review Review III: Limiting judicial review by ‘clarifying’ non-justiciability — or putting lipstick on the proverbial pig
Having considered, in my first two posts in this series, the general scope and underlying agenda of the Government’s Review of judicial review and the possibility of codifying the grounds… Read more
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The Judicial Review Review II: Codifying Judicial Review — Clarification or Evisceration?
In my first post on the Review of judicial review, I noted, among other things, the potentially far-reaching nature of the recommendations that might emerge, bearing in mind the Review’s… Read more
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The Judicial Review Review I: The Reform Agenda and its Potential Scope
The UK Government has announced a review of judicial review — the Independent Review of Administrative Law — with notably broad terms of reference. This post is the first in… Read more
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The United Kingdom’s constitution and Brexit: A ‘constitutional moment’?
I recently completed work on an article for a special issue of the Japanese legal journal Horitsu Jiho. The theme of the special issue is the impact of the forces… Read more
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The Fundamentality of Rights at Common Law
I recently completed a paper, to be published in a forthcoming edited collection, on ‘The Fundamentality of Rights at Common Law’. The concern of the paper is with the senses… Read more
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1,000 words / The Supreme Court’s Judgment in Cherry/Miller (No 2)
This short piece, which forms part of my 1,000 words series of posts, aims to set out in an accessible way the key points of the Supreme Court’s judgment in… Read more
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A new approach to constitutional adjudication? Miller II in the Supreme Court
The following is my detailed, initial analysis of the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Cherry/Miller (No 2) case. For a shorter explanation of the case, see this 1,000 words post.… Read more
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Prorogation and justiciability: Some thoughts ahead of the Miller II case in the Supreme Court
A good deal has been said in recent days about whether the Government’s advice to the Queen concerning the prorogation of Parliament raises a legal question on which courts can… Read more
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The Brexit Secretary says he has “set in stone” the repeal of the European Communities Act 1972 — but the legal significance of this misleading claim is very limited
Earlier today, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Stephen Barclay MP, posted a tweet saying that he had “signed the legislation setting in stone the repeal” of… Read more
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Letter to The Times: Parliament’s (limited) capacity to prevent a no-deal Brexit
The following letter was published in The Times on 12 August 2019. It responds to an article, published in the same newspaper on 9 August, in which Professor Vernon Bogdanor… Read more
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