UK Constitutional Law Association
WEBThe House of Lords Constitution Committee reports on The Governance of the Union. UURead More. Over the past decade the House of Lords Constitution Committee has immersed itself in the principles, purposes and […] UKCLA September 27, 2024 Constitutional reform, Devolution, UK Parliament, United Kingdom. Thomas Horsley: Relations Reset or ...
Stephen Tierney and Alison Young: - UK Constitutional Law …
WEBJan 20, 2022 · Following a year-long inquiry into the future governance of the United Kingdom, the House of Lords Constitution Committee today publishes its report, Respect and Co-operation: Building a Stronger Union for the 21st century. The document comprises 10 chapters, beginning with reflections upon the state of the Union. It then turns to parliamentary sovereignty, relations between…
Michael Foran: Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Politics of …
WEBOct 18, 2021 · Parliamentary sovereignty has traditionally been understood to mean that Parliament is free to enact legislation on any area of law that it chooses, and that Acts of the U.K. Parliament take precedence over subordinate legislation, regulation, or common law rule. Understood this way, parliamentary sovereignty is a constitutional principle that is couched explicitly in legal…
UK Constitutional Law Association
WEBJun 1, 2021 · The Conservative government’s response to the IRAL report has raised plenty of alarm bells from UK constitutional scholars. The widespread observation that the government’s judicial review reform plans appear to go well beyond what the Independent Panel recommended points to a more fundamental problem: that the government seems to proceed from a very partial understanding…
Mark Elliott and Nicholas Kilford: Devolution in the Supreme Court ...
WEBOct 15, 2021 · In the Continuity Bill Reference, the Supreme Court advanced a striking analysis of the implications for devolution of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty — or, more specifically, of the provision in the Scotland Act 1998 that had hitherto been understood merely to affirm that doctrine. The provision in …
Mike Gordon: A Statutory Basis for the Ministerial Code – the ...
WEBNov 16, 2021 · With the UK in the midst of its latest political corruption crisis, the question of the (in)adequacy of the current infrastructure concerning standards in public life is once more in the spotlight.Immediately prior to the parliamentary farce over the Owen Paterson lobbying affair, the Committee on Standards in Public Life published a significant report, Upholding Standards in Public Life ...
Daniella Lock: Three Ways the Bill of Rights Bill Undermines UK ...
WEBJun 27, 2022 · The Bill of Rights Bill is framed by the Government as necessary to ensure ‘meaningful democratic oversight’ of human rights protection in the UK, with Conservative MPs keen to present the Bill as a means to restore sovereignty in the face of interfering judges – both at the level of the European Court of …
About UKCLA - UK Constitutional Law Association
WEBThe Association. The United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association (UKCLA) is the UK’s national body of constitutional law scholars affiliated to the International Association of Constitutional Law.Its object is to ‘encourage and promote the advancement of knowledge relating to United Kingdom constitutional law (broadly defined) and the study of …
UK Constitutional Law Association
WEBJul 27, 2021 · The UK’s departure from the EU was marked, at least in legal terms, by a curious combination of change and continuity. One key issue ripe for change was the principle of the supremacy of EU law. Vote Leave argued before the referendum that this principle ‘stops the British public from being able to vote out…
Michael Foran: Shamima Begum, the Separation of Powers, and …
WEBMar 17, 2021 · The Supreme Court has come under significant criticism for its handling of the Shamima Begum case, decided on 26 February. Much has already been said in relation to the deference that the court showed to the executive, with some arguing that it was improper or even a complete abdication of the judicial role itself. This…