For Women Scotland 3 was a petition for judicial review of a policy: the Scottish Prison Service’s non-statutory guidance on the Management of Transgender People in Custody. The claim turned on the ...

Call for Papers – Extended Deadline:UKCLA Early Career Workshop in Constitutional Law and Theory UKCLA Early Career Workshop in Constitutional Law and Theory – University of Bristol – 10 June 2026 ...

The Global South Network (GSN) invites you to the third judicial dialogue titled “Backsliding of the Rule of Law” to […] ...

The literature on section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 has largely been preoccupied with a single direction of […] ...

1. Introduction Recent public law cases concerning dualism––the operative divide between international and domestic jurisprudence––have prompted renewed debate […] ...

On 7 January, United States military forces, supported by British forces, intercepted the oil tanker originally known as the Bella 1, then renamed the Marinera, in the Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland.

On Thursday 26 th March the Supreme Court concluded, to the delight of The Guardian and the dismay of the Prime Minister, that communications between Prince Charles and government Ministers – the ...

In a report published on 11 May, the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (“SLSC”) drew attention to a constitutional issue of considerable interest and novelty. The SLSC drew the ...

In Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer [2024] UKSC 12 (Mercer), the Supreme Court was confronted with whether and how to exercise its powers under sections 3 and 4 of the HRA 1998. This ...

In early January 2026, the Court of Appeal (Peter Jackson LJ, Elisabeth Laing LJ, and Jeremy Baker LJ) handed down the decision in R (RR and AA) v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and ...

At the end of a long review of my book Parliamentary Sovereignty, Contemporary Debates (CUP, 2010, hereafter PS), Vernon Bogdanor concludes that I have “suffered one of the worst fates that can befall ...

Pierre Janelle diagnosed the root cause of The Catholic Reformation as “anarchy the disease within the church”. It is my contention that unaccountability is the disease within Government and the root ...