In June I argued on this blog that the Supreme Court’s decision in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026] UKSC 16 broke faith with a discipline that runs from chapter 29 ...

The long-awaited Representation of the People Bill was laid before the House of Commons on 12 February 2026. This followed the Government’s earlier policy paper, “Restoring Trust in our Democracy”, ...

Judicial review case law on the principle of dualism—the idea that domestic and international law are distinct systems of norms, and international obligations therefore require domestic implementation ...

The General Editors and Editorial Committee of Public Law are seeking to appoint a Co-Editor of the journal’s “current survey” section (to work alongside Dr Sarah Nason (Bangor University)) and ...

It is seldom that the much-mythologised Magna Carta is actually engaged. Yet in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026] UKSC 16 (the Deprivation of Liberty Reference) the ...

So how did this public law duty all begin? It grew initially out of the doctrine of legitimate expectations and the understanding that guidance is integral to the ‘mature process of public ...

An article in the Sunday Times by Professor Richard Ekins and Sir Stephen Laws QC advised that the Monarch could withhold Royal Assent to a bill passed if advised to do so by ministers. Robert Craig ...

My first encounter with the fantasies that underpin English public law came in the 1980s. I had just starting teaching constitutional law and was taking my first year students through Dicey: the ...

It seems that a day cannot go by without another mention by the Conservative party of their desire to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998, withdraw from the European Convention of Human Rights, or find a ...

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 ...

The system which handles appeals against the Home Office’s asylum and immigration decisions looks set, once again, to be overhauled. If enacted, Part 1 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill would replace ...

The facts in Harry Miller may be briefly stated. Between November 2018 and January 2019, Mr Miller posted a series of tweets expressing ‘gender critical’ beliefs. Following a complaint by a ...