More attention has been paid in recent years to the important role government lawyers play in many constitutional […] ...

Panel Discussion on the ‘Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’ 18:00-19:30 Monday 24th February 2025 University of […] ...

In one of the most celebrated passages in legal history, Lord Atkin stated in Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206 […] ...

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 ...

In the summer of 2022, during the election process which Liz Truss would eventually win, Tortoise Media wrote […] ...

It is entirely possible for a subsidy to be granted by legislation: legislation may provide, for example, for payments to be made or for more favourable tax treatment of favoured sectors. The ...

The Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL), which is holding a short, seven-week consultation that will close on 26 October 2020, has a remit to consider whether parts of UK administrative ...

Miller (No 2) and Bush v Gore (2000) have something in common. Both cases featured judicial intervention in politics and basic questions of constitutional power. Both resulted in controversial ...

Since its formal introduction in the Maastricht Treaty, EU citizenship has laid claim to a constitutional status. The Union Treaties – long described by the Court of Justice as the EU’s constitutional ...

Section 179 of the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 places the Secretary of State under a duty to ensure that a Report is “la[id] before Parliament” on both the “use” and “effectiveness” of “relevant ...

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 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 ...